Luc Steels
List of John Benjamins publications for which Luc Steels plays a role.
Journal
ISSN 1387-5337 | E-ISSN 1569-9757
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
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
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
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
2017 Basics of Fluid Construction Grammar Verb Phrase and Fluid Construction Grammar, Steels, Luc and Katrien Beuls (eds.), pp. 178–225 | Article
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
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
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 more2012 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
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
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
2012 Foreword Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. vii–xii | Foreword
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
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
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
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
2011 Foreword Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, Steels, Luc (ed.), pp. vii–xii | Foreword
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
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
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
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.
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2006 Collaborative tagging as distributed cognition Distributed Cognition, Harnad, Stevan and Itiel E. Dror (eds.), pp. 287–292 | 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 more2001 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
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.
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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