English

Meaning and Form in a Language Computer Simulation

Physics and Society 2008-05-19 v2

Abstract

Thousands of different forms (words) are associated with thousands of different meanings (concepts) in a language computer model. Reasonable agreement with reality is found for the number of languages in a family and the Hamming distances between languages.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.0801.0109,
  title  = {Meaning and Form in a Language Computer Simulation},
  author = {Soeren Wichmann and Dietrich Stauffer and Christian Schulze and F. Welington S. Lima and Eric W Holman},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0801.0109},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

13 pages including many figures. Revised version with larger systems and one more author Welington Lima; 15 pages

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