Remi van Trijp


2016

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The Role of Intrinsic Motivation in Artificial Language Emergence: a Case Study on Colour
Miquel Cornudella | Thierry Poibeau | Remi van Trijp
Proceedings of COLING 2016, the 26th International Conference on Computational Linguistics: Technical Papers

Human languages have multiple strategies that allow us to discriminate objects in a vast variety of contexts. Colours have been extensively studied from this point of view. In particular, previous research in artificial language evolution has shown how artificial languages may emerge based on specific strategies to distinguish colours. Still, it has not been shown how several strategies of diverse complexity can be autonomously managed by artificial agents . We propose an intrinsic motivation system that allows agents in a population to create a shared artificial language and progressively increase its expressive power. Our results show that with such a system agents successfully regulate their language development, which indicates a relation between population size and consistency in the emergent communicative systems.

2013

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Fluid Construction Grammar for Historical and Evolutionary Linguistics
Pieter Wellens | Remi van Trijp | Katrien Beuls | Luc Steels
Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: System Demonstrations

2012

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Not as Awful as it Seems: Explaining German Case through Computational Experiments in Fluid Construction Grammar
Remi van Trijp
Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Fluid Construction Grammar: The New Kid on the Block
Remi van Trijp | Luc Steels | Katrien Beuls | Pieter Wellens
Proceedings of the Demonstrations at the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics