Complex system model of language change
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Complex system model of language change
Simulations of language evolution and phylogenetic/feature dynamics, as described in: "Kapur, Rhea and Phillip Rogers. 2020. Modeling language evolution and feature dynamics in a realistic geographic environment. 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2020), Barcelona, Spain."
We use reinforcement learning to study how language can be used as a tool for agents to accomplish tasks in their environment, and show that structure in the evolved language emerges naturally through iterated learning, leading to the development of compositional language for describing and generalising about unseen objects.
Experiments and figures for MSc thesis, 'Bayesian Language Games'
Python package used in the TICCLAT project
Reimplementation of Manin (2008)'s models of lexical-semantic evolution
A spreading activation (neural network) model of word production and lexicon evolution
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