The evolution of grounded spatial language: Volume 5 (Computational Models of Language Evolution) - Softcover

Spranger, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3944675460 ISBN 13: 9783944675466

Publisher: Language Science Press, 2016

Synopsis

This book presents groundbreaking robotic experiments on how and why spatial language evolves. It provides detailed explanations of the origins of spatial conceptualization strategies, spatial categories, landmark systems and spatial grammar by tracing the interplay of environmental conditions, communicative and cognitive pressures. The experiments discussed in this book go far beyond previous approaches in grounded language evolution. For the first time, agents can evolve not only particular lexical systems but also evolve complex conceptualization strategies underlying the emergence of category systems and compositional semantics. Moreover, many issues in cognitive science, ranging from perception and conceptualization to language processing, had to be dealt with to instantiate these experiments, so that this book contributes not only to the study of language evolution but to the investigation of the cognitive bases of spatial language as well.

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About the Author

Michael Spranger received his Diploma from the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany) in 2008 and a PhD from the Vrije Universiteit in Brussels (Belgium) in 2011 (both in Computer Science). For his PhD he was a researcher at Sony CSL Paris (France). He then worked in the R&D department of Sony corporation in Tokyo (Japan) for almost 2 years. He currently holds a position in Sony CSL (Tokyo, Japan). He is a roboticist by training with extensive experience in research on and construction of autonomous systems including research on robot perception, world modeling and behavior control. After his diploma he fell in love with the study of language and has since worked on different language domains from action language and posture verbs to time, tense, determination and spatial language. His work focusses on artificial language evolution, computational cognitive semantics and robotics.

Edition details

• Publisher: Language Science Press
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3944675460
• ISBN 13: 9783944675466
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 280