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Self-Organization of a Lexicon in a Structured Society of Agents

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Advances in Artificial Life (ECAL 1999)

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The naming game is a formal mechanism that describes the development of a lexicon in a society of culturally interacting agents. We will here use a cellular automaton version of this game to study the influence of an extra-linguistic structure over the evolution of the lexicon, but also the influence of language over this a priori structure. This extra-linguistic structure will be coded by first giving a location in a 2-D world to agents, and then by allowing them to move in relation to the outcome of the naming games. The results we will present show strong self-organization phenomena, such as the appearance of language and geographical clusters, in addition to the basic properties of the game (high communication success).

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  1. Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, 46, allee d’Italie, 69007, Lyon, France

    Pierre-yves Oudeyer

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  1. Laboratory of Microprocessors and Interfaces (LAMI) Department of Computer Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (EPFL), CH-1015, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Dario Floreano , Jean-Daniel Nicoud  & Francesco Mondada ,  & 

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Oudeyer, Py. (1999). Self-Organization of a Lexicon in a Structured Society of Agents. In: Floreano, D., Nicoud, JD., Mondada, F. (eds) Advances in Artificial Life. ECAL 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1674. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48304-7_95

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