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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@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