The evolution of grounded spatial language

Michael Spranger

ISBN 10: 3944675460 / ISBN 13: 9783944675466

Editore: Language Science Press, Language Science Press Mai 2017, 2017

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Neuware -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.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 280 pp. Englisch.

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• Titolo: The evolution of grounded spatial language
• Editore: Language Science Press, Language Science Press Mai 2017
• Data di pubblicazione: 2017
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3944675460
• ISBN 13: 9783944675466
• Rilegatura: Taschenbuch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 240 L x 170 A x 18 P (millimetri) 240 millimetri di larghezza per 170 millimetri di altezza per 18 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 538 grammi

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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.

Informazioni sull?autore

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.