Title :
Emergence of grammatical conventions in an agent population using a simplified tree adjoining grammar
Author :
Allexandre, Christophe ; Popescu-Belis, Andrei
Author_Institution :
Lab. d´´Informatique pour la Mecanique et les Sci. de l´´Ingenieur, CNRS, Orsay, France
Abstract :
The paper describes a population of communicating agents, rewarded for successful dialogs. Agents encode and decode messages about their environment using the TAG formalism. Experimental results show that lexical and word order conventions spread under suitable conditions
Keywords :
grammars; interactive systems; software agents; trees (mathematics); TAG formalism; agent population; communicating agents; grammatical conventions; lexical conventions; message decoding; message encoding; simplified tree adjoining grammar; word order conventions; Artificial intelligence; Cognition; Concrete; Decoding; Natural language processing; Robotics and automation; Steel; Technical Activities Guide -TAG;
Conference_Titel :
Multi Agent Systems, 1998. Proceedings. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8500-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699224
