3 papers
cs.CL2026
Evolving language compositionality in a frequency-structured meaning space
Fabio De Ponte, Eloise Gaines-White, Conor Houghton +1
The iterated learning model was introduced to investigate language evolution: the way in which the characteristic properties of human languages have been shaped, at least partly, b…
cs.CL2026
Image, Word and Thought: A More Challenging Language Task for the Iterated Learning Model
Hyoyeon Lee, Seth Bullock, Conor Houghton
The iterated learning model simulates the transmission of language from generation to generation in order to explore how the constraints imposed by language transmission facilitate…
cs.CL2024
An iterated learning model of language change that mixes supervised and unsupervised learning
Jack Bunyan, Seth Bullock, Conor Houghton
The iterated learning model is an agent model which simulates the transmission of of language from generation to generation. It is used to study how the language adapts to pressure…