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Abstract

In this paper we motivate and report on the implementation of a computer experiment to investigate the syntax and semantics of linguistic constructions about time. It is argued that the way in which a domain like time is conceptualized is not universal and evolves over time. To investigate this we want to simulate a population of agents evolving their proper language and ontology of time in order to succeed in communicating temporal information. Such simulations can be done using a formalism proposed by Steels (2004). Some advances in applying the formalism to the domain of time are reported and examples of actual simulations are presented.

@incollection{debeule05construc_time,
  author={Joachim De Beule},
  title={Simulating the syntax and semantics of linguistic constructions about time},
  year={2006},
  address={Dordrecht},
  editor={Gontier, Nathalie and van Bendegem, Jean Paul and Aerts, Diederik},
  series={Theory and Decision Library - Series A: Philosophy and Methodology of the Social Sciences},
  publisher={Springer},
  booktitle={Evolutionary Epistemology, Language and Culture - A non-adaptationist, systems theoretical approach},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/debeule05construc_time.html}
}

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