Browsing School of Computer Science and Statistics by Author "BACHWERK, MARTIN"
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Language and friendships: A co-evolution model of social and linguistic conventions
BACHWERK, MARTIN; VOGEL, CARL (World Scientific, 2012)Human social networks are dynamic, yet the majority of computational models of language evolution operate with either fixed or random interaction patterns between agents. This paper presents a model of lexicon formation ... -
Modelling Social Structures and Hierarchies in Language Evolution
VOGEL, CARL; BACHWERK, MARTIN (Springer, 2010)Language evolution might have preferred certain prior social configurations over others. Experiments conducted with models of different social structures (varying subgroup interactions and the role of a dominant interlocutor) ...