?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=The+evolution+of+a+lexicon+and+meaning+in+robotic+agents+through+self-organization&rft.creator=Vogt%2C+Paul&rft.subject=Dynamical+Systems&rft.subject=Machine+Learning&rft.subject=Computational+Linguistics&rft.description=This+paper+discusses+interdisciplinary+experiments%2C+combining+robotics+and+evolutionary+computational+linguistics.+The+goal+of+the+experiments+is+to+investigate+if+robotic+agents+can+originate+a+language%2C+in+particular+a+lexicon.+In+the+experiments+two+robots+engage+in+a+series+of+so-called+language+games.+Starting+from+the+assumption+that+the+robots+know+how+to+communicate+and+are+able+to+detect+some+sensory+information+from+the+environment%2C+the+agents+ground+conceptual+meaning+and+develop+a+lexicon.+The+experiments+show+that+the+robots+are+able+to+form+a+shared+communication+system.+The+paper+investigates+the+influence+of+using+non-linguistic+information+in+the+formation+of+the+lexicon%2C+which+takes+the+form+of+pointing+(1)+to+indicate+the+topic+of+the+language+game%2C+and+(2)+to+give+feedback+on+the+outcome+of+the+game.&rft.date=1998&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=application%2Fpostscript&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F205%2F2%2Fevol.ps&rft.identifier=++Vogt%2C+Paul++(1998)+The+evolution+of+a+lexicon+and+meaning+in+robotic+agents+through+self-organization.++%5BPreprint%5D++++(Unpublished)++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F205%2F