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Conference Paper: A cross-model study on the effect of power-laws on language evolution
Title | A cross-model study on the effect of power-laws on language evolution |
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Keywords | Computer simulation Language evolution Power-law Social popularity |
Issue Date | 2012 |
Publisher | IEEE. The Journal's web site is located at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1000284 |
Citation | The 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence(WCCI 2012), Brisbane, Australia, 10-15 June 2012. In Conference Proceedings, 2012, p. 3237-3244 How to Cite? |
Abstract | Based on three evolutionary computational models that respectively simulate lexical, categorical and syntactic evolutions, we explore the effect of power-law distributed social popularity on language origin and change. Simulation results reveal a critical scaling degree (λ ≈ 1.0) in power-law distributions that helps accelerate the diffusion of linguistic conventions and preserve high linguistic understandability in population. Other scaling degrees (λ = 0.0 or λ > 1.0), however, tend to delay such diffusion process and affect linguistic understandability. Apart from the conventionalization nature of language communications in these models, increase in population size could also contribute to select the critical scaling degree, since this scaling degree can accommodate the influence of population size on linguistic understandability and many power-laws in real-world systems have their scaling degrees around this critical value. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/179874 |
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DC Field | Value | Language |
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dc.contributor.author | Gong, T | en_US |
dc.contributor.author | Shuai, L | en_US |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-12-19T10:07:14Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2012-12-19T10:07:14Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2012 | en_US |
dc.identifier.citation | The 2012 IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence(WCCI 2012), Brisbane, Australia, 10-15 June 2012. In Conference Proceedings, 2012, p. 3237-3244 | en_US |
dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-4673-1509-8 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/179874 | - |
dc.description.abstract | Based on three evolutionary computational models that respectively simulate lexical, categorical and syntactic evolutions, we explore the effect of power-law distributed social popularity on language origin and change. Simulation results reveal a critical scaling degree (λ ≈ 1.0) in power-law distributions that helps accelerate the diffusion of linguistic conventions and preserve high linguistic understandability in population. Other scaling degrees (λ = 0.0 or λ > 1.0), however, tend to delay such diffusion process and affect linguistic understandability. Apart from the conventionalization nature of language communications in these models, increase in population size could also contribute to select the critical scaling degree, since this scaling degree can accommodate the influence of population size on linguistic understandability and many power-laws in real-world systems have their scaling degrees around this critical value. | en_US |
dc.language | eng | en_US |
dc.publisher | IEEE. The Journal's web site is located at http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome.jsp?punumber=1000284 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | IEEE World Congress on Computational Intelligence, WCCI 2012 | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, IEEE-CEC 2012 | - |
dc.subject | Computer simulation | en_US |
dc.subject | Language evolution | en_US |
dc.subject | Power-law | en_US |
dc.subject | Social popularity | en_US |
dc.title | A cross-model study on the effect of power-laws on language evolution | en_US |
dc.type | Conference_Paper | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Gong, T: tgong@hku.hk | en_US |
dc.identifier.email | Shuai, L: susan.shuai@gmail.com | - |
dc.identifier.authority | Gong, T=rp01654 | en_US |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1109/CEC.2012.6252965 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84866867864 | en_US |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 222915 | - |
dc.relation.references | http://www.scopus.com/mlt/select.url?eid=2-s2.0-84866867864&selection=ref&src=s&origin=recordpage | en_US |
dc.identifier.spage | 3237 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 3244 | - |
dc.publisher.place | United States | - |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Shuai, L=55078175800 | en_US |
dc.identifier.scopusauthorid | Gong, T=35177507200 | en_US |
dc.customcontrol.immutable | sml 131009 | - |