3 papers
physics.soc-ph2020
Phase transitions in a decentralized graph-based approach to human language
Javier Vera, Felipe Urbina, Wenceslao Palma
Zipf's law establishes a scaling behavior for word-frequencies in large text corpora. The appearance of Zipfian properties in human language has been previously explained as an opt…
cs.CL2016
Self-organization of vocabularies under different interaction orders
Javier Vera
Traditionally, the formation of vocabularies has been studied by agent-based models (specially, the Naming Game) in which random pairs of agents negotiate word-meaning associations…
cs.CL2016
Modeling self-organization of vocabularies under phonological similarity effects
Javier Vera
This work develops a computational model (by Automata Networks) of phonological similarity effects involved in the formation of word-meaning associations on artificial populations…