Symbol Grounding and Beyond

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, EELC 2006. The book presents 12 revised full papers together with 5 invited papers. These focus on the evolution and emergence of language - a fast growing interdisciplinary research area touching such different disciplines as anthropology, linguistics, psychology, primatology, neuroscience, cognitive science and computer science.

A Hybrid Model for Learning Word-Meaning Mappings. - Cooperation, Conceptual Spaces and the Evolution of Semantics. - Cross-Situational Learning: A Mathematical Approach. - Dialog Strategy Acquisition and Its Evaluation for Efficient Learning of Word Meanings by Agents. - Evolving Distributed Representations for Language with Self-Organizing Maps. - How Do Children Develop Syntactic Representations from What They Hear? . - How Grammar Emerges to Dampen Combinatorial Search in Parsing. - Implementation of Biases Observed in Children s Language Development into Agents. - Lexicon Convergence in a Population With and Without Metacommunication. - Operational Aspects of the Evolved Signalling Behaviour in a Group of Cooperating and Communicating Robots. - Propositional Logic Syntax Acquisition. - Robots That Learn Language: Developmental Approach to Human-Machine Conversations. - Simulating Meaning Negotiation Using Observational Language Games. - Symbol Grounding Through Cumulative Learning. - The Human Speechome Project. - Unify and Merge in Fluid Construction Grammar. - Utility for Communicability by Profit and Cost of Agreement.