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Cooperation, conceptual spaces and the evolution of semantics

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Summary, in English

We start by providing an evolutionary scenario for the emergence of semantics. It is argued that the evolution of anticipatory cognition and theory of mind in the hominids opened up for cooperation about future goals. This cooperation requires symbolic communication. The meanings of the symbols are established via a "meeting of minds." The concepts in the minds of communicating individuals are modelled as convex regions in conceptual spaces. We then outline a mathematical framework based on fixpoints in continuous mappings between conceptual spaces that can be used to model such a semantics.

Department/s

Publishing year

2006

Language

English

Pages

16-30

Publication/Series

Lecture Notes in Computer Science: Symbol Grounding and Beyond

Volume

4211 LNAI

Document type

Conference paper

Publisher

Springer

Topic

  • Learning
  • General Language Studies and Linguistics

Keywords

  • Hominids
  • Symbolic communication
  • Fixpoints

Conference name

3rd International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, EELC 2006

Conference date

2006-09-30 - 2006-10-01

Conference place

Rome, Italy

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Other

  • ISSN: 1611-3349
  • ISSN: 0302-9743