creators_name: Vogt, Paul
creators_name: Coumans, Hans
type: journale
datestamp: 2003-07-16
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:18
metadata_visibility: show
title: Investigating social interaction strategies for bootstrapping lexicon development
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-lang
subjects: ling-comput
full_text_status: public
keywords: language evolution, language games, language acquistion
abstract: This paper investigates how different modes of social interactions influence the bootstrapping and evolution of lexicons. This is done by comparing three language game models that differ in the type of social interactions they use. The simulations show that the language games which use either joint attention or corrective feedback as a source of contextual input are better capable of bootstrapping a lexicon than the game without such directed interactions. The simulation of the latter game, however, does show that it is possible to develop a lexicon without using directed input when the lexicon is transmitted from generation to generation.
date: 2003
date_type: published
publication: Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation
volume: 6
number: 1
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Vogt, Paul and Coumans, Hans  (2003) Investigating social interaction strategies for bootstrapping lexicon development.  [Journal (On-line/Unpaginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/3053/1/jasss.pdf