Universität Bielefeld - Sonderforschungsbereich 360
Dynamics of Relationships among Words based on
a Dynamical View of Language
Lab. for Information Synthesis
Brain Science Institute
Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Japan
Monday, January 18th, 1999; 4 pm.; Hörsaal 9
Dynamics of structure in relationships among words via
communication is studied by a constructive approach. Our study is
based on the dynamical view of language, which is that meanings of
words are dynamically created through activities of sense-making
by individual language users. We simulate "conversation" in
which agents having word relation matrices as their internal
structure speak and listen to sentences. The sense-making
activity is modeled by situating words in a web of relationships
among words according to the usage of the words. We observe that
agents develop cluster structure in word relationships, which is
endowed with both stability and adaptability. It is considered
that the cluster structure shares some features with prototype
category. The structure changes dynamically by appearing new
usages of language. The coexisting commonality and individuality
of cluster structure is observed in an ensemble of individuals.
Anke Weinberger, 1999-01-13, 1999-01-14