Modeling The Formation of Language in Embodied Agents: Methods and Open Challenges

This chapter introduces the cultural approach towards the question how a symbolic communication system could form in a population of agents. This approach emphasises the role of communication, high level cognition, and social interaction. The chapter introduces briefly the main challenges for working out this approach and which methods could be used to address these challenges.

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