comment: Re: FW: emergent semantics: alternative to the Semantic Web

I believe Luc Steels' work ( http://arti.vub.ac.be/~steels/ ) merits 
more than the "prescriptive vs. descriptive" distinction mentioned here.

Luc Steels' work includes the emergence of language among autonomous 
co-operating agents who share some context. What he has shown with 
communicating robots is how language arises, how the parts of language 
(nouns, verbs, grammars) arise, and how certain words comes to dominate 
(and other words becomes vestigial) in a large context with many 
co-operating agents.  IOW his experiments demonstrate how stable 
language (and therefore a common ontology) can emerge among the agents 
in a society. By examining the mechanisms of the origin of 
communication, Steels reveals (and provides supporting experiments for) 
the emergence of language, something IMO extremely relevant to the 
Semantic Web.

Apologies for the tardiness of this post. However the above URL is much 
better than others provided.

Received on Wednesday, 10 May 2006 18:29:07 UTC