Luc Steels

List of John Benjamins publications for which Luc Steels plays a role.

Journal

Evolution of Communication (EOC)

General Editor: Harold Gouzoules

ISSN 1387-5337 | E-ISSN 1569-9757

Titles

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Case Studies in Fluid Construction Grammar: The verb phrase

Edited by Luc Steels and Katrien Beuls

[Benjamins Current Topics, 106] 2019. v, 150 pp.

Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

Verb Phrase and Fluid Construction Grammar

Edited by Luc Steels and Katrien Beuls

Special issue of Constructions and Frames 9:2 (2017) v, 162 pp.

Subjects Cognition and language | Functional linguistics | Syntax | Theoretical linguistics

Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution

Edited by Luc Steels

[Advances in Interaction Studies, 3] 2012. xii, 306 pp.

Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Evolution of language | Interaction Studies | Theoretical linguistics

Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar

Edited by Luc Steels

[Constructional Approaches to Language, 11] 2011. xi, 332 pp.

Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Theoretical linguistics

The Evolution of Grounded Communication

Edited by Luc Steels

Special issue of Evolution of Communication 4:1 (2001) iv, 161 pp.

Subjects Artificial Intelligence | Evolution of language

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Beuls, Katrien and Luc Steels 2019 Approaches to the verb phrase in Fluid Construction Grammar Case Studies in Fluid Construction Grammar: The verb phrase, Steels, Luc and Katrien Beuls (eds.), pp. 1–4 | Chapter

Steels, Luc 2019 Basics of Fluid Construction Grammar Case Studies in Fluid Construction Grammar: The verb phrase, Steels, Luc and Katrien Beuls (eds.), pp. 5–52 | Chapter

Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is a fully operational computational platform for developing grammars from a constructional perspective. It contains mechanisms for representing grammars and for using them in computational experiments and applications in language understanding, production and… read more

Beuls, Katrien and Luc Steels 2017 Approaches to the verb phrase in Fluid Construction Grammar Verb Phrase and Fluid Construction Grammar, Steels, Luc and Katrien Beuls (eds.), pp. 175–177 | Introduction

Steels, Luc 2017 Basics of Fluid Construction Grammar Verb Phrase and Fluid Construction Grammar, Steels, Luc and Katrien Beuls (eds.), pp. 178–225 | Article

Steels, Luc, Martin Loetzsch and Michael Spranger 2016 A boy named Sue: The semiotic dynamics of naming and identity Computational Construction Grammar and Constructional Change, Beuls, Katrien and Remi van Trijp (eds.), pp. 147–169 | Article

One major lesson learned in the cognitive sciences is that even basic human cognitive capacities are extraordinarily complicated and elusive to mechanistic explanations. This is definitely the case for naming and identity. Nothing seems simpler than using a proper name to refer to a unique… read more

Steels, Luc 2013 How language emerges in situated embodied interactions New Perspectives on the Origins of Language, Lefebvre, Claire, Bernard Comrie and Henri Cohen (eds.), pp. 505–532 | Article

The paper introduces a methodology for developing evolutionary explanations for phenomena observed in human natural languages. The methodology is inspired by Evolutionary Biology but maps the Darwinian selectionist framework to the cognitive, linguistic, and cultural levels. read more

Beuls, Katrien, Luc Steels and Sebastian Höfer 2012 The emergence of internal agreement systems Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 233–256 | Article

Grammatical agreement means that two linguistic units share certain syntactic or semantic features such as gender, number or person. Agreement has a variety of grammatical functions. One of them, called internal agreement, is to signal which words are grouped together as part of the same phrase.… read more

Spranger, Michael and Luc Steels 2012 Emergent functional grammar for space Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 207–232 | Article

This chapter explores a semantics-oriented approach to the origins of syntactic structure. It reports on preliminary experiments whereby speakers introduce hierarchical constructions and grammatical markers to express which conceptualization strategy hearers are supposed to invoke. This… read more

Steels, Luc 2012 Introduction. Self-organization and selection in cultural language evolution Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 1–37 | Article

This chapter outlines the main challenges a theory for the cultural evolution of language should address and proposes a particular theory which is worked out and explored in greater detail in the remaining chapters of this book. The theory rests on two biologically inspired mechanisms, namely… read more

Steels, Luc 2012 Foreword Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. vii–xii | Miscellaneous

Steels, Luc and Martin Loetzsch 2012 The Grounded Naming Game Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 41–59 | Article

This chapter shows a concrete example of a language game experiment for studying the cultural evolution of one of the most basic functions of language, namely to draw attention to an object in the context by naming a characteristic feature of the object. If the object is a specific recognizable… read more

Steels, Luc and Michael Spranger 2012 Emergent mirror systems for body language Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 87–109 | Article

This chapter investigates how a vocabulary for talking about body actions can emerge in a population of grounded autonomous agents instantiated as humanoid robots. The agents play a Posture Game in which the speaker asks the hearer to take on a certain posture. The speaker either signals… read more

Steels, Luc 2011 A design pattern for phrasal constructions Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 71–114 | Article

This chapter has two objectives. It discusses a design pattern for phrasal constructions and introduces the templates that can be used to instantiate this pattern in Fluid Construction Grammar, using as illustration nominal phrases such as “the green mouse’’ or “this mouse of mine’’. Phrasal… read more

Steels, Luc 2011 A first encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 31–68 | Article

This chapter introduces the main mechanisms available in FCG for representing constructions and transient structures. It sketches the process whereby constructions are applied to expand transient structures and illustrates how templates are used to define constructions in a more abstract and… read more

Steels, Luc 2011 Foreword Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. vii–xii | Miscellaneous

Steels, Luc 2011 Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 3–30 | Article

Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) is a formalism for defining the inventory of lexical and grammatical conventions that language processing requires and the operations with which this inventory is used to parse and produce sentences. This chapter introduces some of the key ideas and basic design… read more

Steels, Luc and Remi van Trijp 2011 How to make construction grammars fluid and robust Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 301–330 | Article

Natural languages are fluid. New conventions may arise and there is never absolute consensus in a population. How can human language users nevertheless have such a high rate of communicative success? And how do they deal with the incomplete sentences, false starts, errors and noise that is common… read more

Steels, Luc 2009 Can agent-based language evolution contribute to archeology? Becoming Eloquent: Advances in the emergence of language, human cognition, and modern cultures, d'Errico, Francesco and Jean-Marie Hombert (eds.), pp. 267–286 | Article

A growing scala of computational and robotic experiments are trying to pin down the cognitive and social prerequisites that may have given rise to human language. From humble beginnings showing how a lexicon may self-organize in a population of artificial agents, these research efforts are now… read more

Steels, Luc 2008 Collaborative tagging as distributed cognition Cognition Distributed: How cognitive technology extends our minds, Dror, Itiel E. and Stevan Harnad (eds.), pp. 93–97 | Article

The paper discusses recent developments in web technologies based on collaborative tagging. This approach is seen as a tremendously powerful way to coordinate the ontologies and views of a large number of individuals, thus constituting the most successful tool for distributed cognition so far. read more

Steels, Luc 2006 Collaborative tagging as distributed cognition Distributed Cognition, Harnad, Stevan and Itiel E. Dror (eds.), pp. 287–292 | Article

Steels, Luc and Frédéric Kaplan 2001 AIBO’s first words: The social learning of language and meaning The Evolution of Grounded Communication, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. 3–32 | Article

This paper explores the hypothesis that language communication in its very first stage is bootstrapped in a social learning process under the strong influence of culture. A concrete framework for social learning has been developed based on the notion of a language game. Autonomous robots have been… read more

Steels, Luc 1997 The Synthetic Modeling of Language Origins Evolution of Communication 1:1, pp. 1–34 | Article

This paper surveys work on the computational modeling of the origins and evolution of language. The main approaches are described and some example experiments from the domains of the evolution of communication, phonetics, lexicon formation, and syntax are discussed. read more

Steels, Luc 1977 Completion Grammars and Completion Automata Revisited ITL - International Journal of Applied Linguistics 37, pp. 19–40 | Article

An extension of completion grammars is being introduced such that the model now deals with prefix, infix, postfix and post-infix word order patterns. It is shown that this extension does not affect the weak generative capacity of the system, which was known to be of type 2. Also the existing… read more