A Cognitively Founded Model of the Social Emergence of Lexicon

@article{gostoli2007, abstract = {This paper suggests a model of the process through which a set of symbols, initially without any intrinsic meaning, acquires endogenously a conventional and socially shared meaning. This model has two related aspects. The first is the cognitive aspect, represented by the process through which each agent processes the information gathered during the interactions with other agents. In this paper, the agents are endowed with the cognitive skills necessary to categorize the input in a lexicographic way, a categorization process that is implemented by the means of data mining techniques. The second aspect is the social one, represented by the process of reiterate interactions among the agents who compose a population. The framework of this social process is that of evolutionary game theory, with a population of agents who are randomly matched in each period in order to play a game that, in this paper, is a kind of signaling game. The simulations show that the emergence of a socially shared meaning associated to a combination of symbols is, under the assumptions of this model, a statistically inevitable occurrence.}, author = {Gostoli, Umberto }, citeulike-article-id = {2317044}, journal = {Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation}, keywords = {abm, and, conventions, \_d\_, data, \_d\_simulation-evidence, emergence, fast, frugal, games, heuristic, lexicon, mining, of, shared-lexicon, signaling, social, theory}, number = {1}, posted-at = {2008-02-01 01:17:12}, priority = {5}, title = {A Cognitively Founded Model of the Social Emergence of Lexicon}, url = {http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/1/2.html}, volume = {11}, year = {2007} }

TY - JOUR ID - gostoli2007 L3 - citeulike-article-id:2317044 TI - A Cognitively Founded Model of the Social Emergence of Lexicon JF - Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation VL - 11 IS - 1 N2 - This paper suggests a model of the process through which a set of symbols, initially without any intrinsic meaning, acquires endogenously a conventional and socially shared meaning. This model has two related aspects. The first is the cognitive aspect, represented by the process through which each agent processes the information gathered during the interactions with other agents. In this paper, the agents are endowed with the cognitive skills necessary to categorize the input in a lexicographic way, a categorization process that is implemented by the means of data mining techniques. The second aspect is the social one, represented by the process of reiterate interactions among the agents who compose a population. The framework of this social process is that of evolutionary game theory, with a population of agents who are randomly matched in each period in order to play a game that, in this paper, is a kind of signaling game. The simulations show that the emergence of a socially shared meaning associated to a combination of symbols is, under the assumptions of this model, a statistically inevitable occurrence. KW - abm KW - and KW - conventions KW - _d_ KW - data KW - _d_simulation-evidence KW - emergence KW - fast KW - frugal KW - games KW - heuristic KW - lexicon KW - mining KW - of KW - shared-lexicon KW - signaling KW - social KW - theory AU - Gostoli, Umberto PY - 2007/// UR - http://jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk/11/1/2.html ER -