Concept Generation in Language Evolution
Martha Lewis, Jonathan Lawry
TL;DR
This thesis explores how new concepts are generated through combining existing ones in language evolution, proposing a method for such combinations and examining their usefulness in linguistic development.
Contribution
It introduces a novel method for combining concepts and investigates their role in language evolution and concept generation.
Findings
Proposes a new method for concept combination
Analyzes the utility of composite concepts in language evolution
Provides insights into the process of concept generation
Abstract
This thesis investigates the generation of new concepts from combinations of existing concepts as a language evolves. We give a method for combining concepts, and will be investigating the utility of composite concepts in language evolution and thence the utility of concept generation.
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Taxonomy
TopicsNatural Language Processing Techniques · Language and cultural evolution · Advanced Text Analysis Techniques