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A platform for conducting experiments in the simulation of natural language evolution is presented. The system is paramaterized for independent specification of important features like: number of agents, communication attempt frequency, agent short term memory capacity, communicative urgency, etc. Representative experiments are demonstrated.
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Vogel, C., Woods, J. (2007). A Platform for Simulating Language Evolution. In: Bramer, M., Coenen, F., Tuson, A. (eds) Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIII. SGAI 2006. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84628-663-6_26
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