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A Grammar-Based Multi-Agent System for Language Evolution

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Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems

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Considering the adequacy of agent systems for the simulation of language evolution, we introduce a formal-language-theoretic multi-agentmodel based on grammar systems that may account for language change: cultural grammar systems. The framework we propose is a variant of the so-called eco-grammar systems. We modify this formal model, by adding new elements and relationships, in order to obtain a new machinery to describe the dynamics of the evolution of language.

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  1. Research Group on Mathematical Linguistics, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, 43002, Tarragona, Spain

    M. Dolores Jiménez-López

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  1. Escuela Universitaria de Informática, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compañía 5, Salamanca, 37002, Spain

    Javier Bajo Pérez

  2. , Facultad de Informática, Universidad Pontificia de Salamanca, Compañía 5, Salamanca, 37002, Spain

    Miguel A. Sánchez

  3. Technologies de Lille, LIFL UMR CNRS 8022, Université des Sciences et, Bâtiment M3 (extension), Villeneuve d’Ascq, 59655, France

    Philippe Mathieu

  4. Faculty of Science, Department of Computing Science, University of Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    Juan M. Corchado Rodríguez

  5. , LAMIH (UMR CNRS 8530), Universite de Valenciennes, Le Mont Houy, Valenciennes, 59313, France

    Emmanuel Adam

  6. , Departamento de Ingeniería, Ciudad Universitaria de Cantoblanco, Madrid, 28049, Spain

    Alfonso Ortega

  7. Universidad de Salamanca, Plaza de la Merced S/N, Salamanca, 37008, Spain

    María N. Moreno

  8. , Departamento de Informática, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Campus Universitario s/n, Albacete, 02071, Spain

    Elena Navarro

  9. EBTIC, Khalifa University, Abu Dhabi Campus, Abu Dhabi, Utd.Arab.Emir.

    Benjamin Hirsch

  10. , Departamento de Engenharia Informática, Universidade do Porto, Rua Dr. Roberto Frias, s/n, Porto, 4200-465, Portugal

    Henrique Lopes-Cardoso

  11. Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Camino de Vera s/n, Valencia, 46022, Spain

    Vicente Julián

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Jiménez-López, M.D. (2012). A Grammar-Based Multi-Agent System for Language Evolution. In: Pérez, J., et al. Highlights on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing, vol 156. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28762-6_6

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