March 31, 2023 | 11:00AM
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LEAP will have its first meeting of the spring quarter on March 31 (Friday) at 11 am (CT). Bart de Boer (Professor, Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel) will talk to us about "Agent-based modeling of language evolution." We will be meeting virtually (see the Zoom link below).
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Date/Time: Mar 31 (Friday), 11:00 am - 12:20 pm (Central Time)
Location: Zoom
Presenter: Bart de Boer (Professor, Artificial Intelligence Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
Title: Agent-based modeling of language evolution
Abstract: Agent-based modeling is a powerful computational technique to investigate linguistic questions: it uses techniques from artificial intelligence to simulate populations of language users and it has been used successfully to investigate questions related to language emergence and language change. This talk will give a brief introduction to agent-based modeling, will review some results from past research and will present examples of ongoing research in this area. It will attempt to show how these computer simulations can be used to shed light on real-world linguistic questions.
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