- From: Michael D. Kersey <mdkersey@hal-pc.org>
- Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 11:58:38 -0500
- To: public-swbp-wg@w3.org
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.
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