Self-Organization of a Lexicon in a Structured Society of Agents

  • Authors:
  • Pierre-Yves Oudeyer

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • ECAL '99 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Advances in Artificial Life
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

The naming game is a formal mechanism that describes the development of a lexicon in a society of culturally interacting agents. We will here use a cellular automaton version of this game to study the influence of an extra-linguistic structure over the evolution of the lexicon, but also the influence of language over this a priori structure. This extra-linguistic structure will be coded by first giving a location in a 2-D world to agents, and then by allowing them to move in relation to the outcome of the naming games. The results we will present show strong self-organization phenomena, such as the appearance of language and geographical clusters, in addition to the basic properties of the game (high communication success).