A Survey on Modeling Language Evolution in the New Millennium

AbstractLanguage is a complex evolving system and it is not a trivial task to model the dynamics of processes occurring during its evolution. Therefore, modeling language evolution has attracted the interest of several researchers giving rise to a lot of models in the literature of the last millennium. This work reviews the literature devoted to computationally represent the evolution of human language through formal models and provides an analysis of the bibliographic production and scientific impact of the surveyed language evolution models to give some conclusions about current trends and future perspectives of this research field. The survey provides also an overview of the strategies for validating and comparing the different language evolution models and how these techniques have been applied by the surveyed models

When Language Evolution Meets Multimodality: Current Status and Challenges Toward Multimodal Computational Models

Computational models can be considered human-designed computing models inspired by the processes observed in the natural world, which allow simulating and understanding these processes. Computational modelling is notably applied to simulate the behaviour and long-term dynamics of human Language. The research effort made so far in computational modelling of language evolution considers predominantly one modality by arguing for a unimodal origin of Language. This article extends this paradigm to a new perspective that integrates into its structure and learning algorithms principles from multimodal communication. This article gives an overview of the current language evolution models. It discusses the key challenges towards multimodal language evolution modelling by envisioning a conceptual framework to design the multimodal grounding and the language learning processes, as well as their realisation through a multi-agent multimodal referential game. This framework is valuable for many researchers working on language evolution to reveal the key questions they should address and integrate for pursuing a holistic vision that combines all modalities in a multimodal language evolution model

NEW EARLY HOLOCENE SETTLEMENT IN CENTRAL ITALY: THE MESOLITHIC SITE OF CONTRADA PACE (MARCHE REGION)

Early Holocene hunter-gatherer settlements are spread throughout Italy and testify to the exploitation of very different landscapes. Nonetheless, their preservation state is not always exceptional. This is not the case for Contrada Pace, an archaeological site recently discovered on a terrace of the Chienti river in central-eastern Italy. This paper reports on the geomorphological, pedo-stratigraphic, and archaeological record of one of the most complete and well-preserved Early Mesolithic open-air sites in Italy and southern Europe. Micro-stratigraphic excavations extended over more than 500 square meters have exposed a buried paleosol with anthropogenic features, which contained thousand lithic artefacts and organic remains framed in the context of a primary forest. These findings appear clustered in different functional areas that yielded multiple structured features. The field evidence integrated by radiocarbon dating and archaeobotanical, archaeomalacological and zooarchaeological data allowed to propose a first interpretation of the general structure of the site and the most significant featuresThe archaeological excavation of the site was carried out by ArcheoLAB (Macerata, Italy) in the framework of construction activities promoted by the Province of Macerata and the Municipality of Tolentino. DV has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (Grant Agreement number: 886476 - LiMPH - H2020-MSCA-IF-2019). The archaeobotanical study and 14C dates were funded by the European Research Council (ERC) as part of the Research and Innovation program of the European Community Horizon 2020 (HIDDEN FOODS no.639286 to EC)

Towards interpreting recurrent neural networks through probabilistic abstraction

National Research Foundation (NRF) Singapore under its AI Singapore Programm

A methodology for generating grammars for multimodal languages

Human communication is naturally multimodal. People normally interact through several communication channels, such as gesture, drawing, handwriting, facial expressions, gaze in combination with speech or speech only, which is the prevalent modality. This synergistic use of multiple interaction channels makes human communication flexible, natural and robust. In the last years several efforts have been made to endow computer interface with similar flexibility, naturalness and robustness. The research presented in this thesis represents one of this effort. The main contributions of this thesis are twofold. First of all, it provides a methodology for multimodal language definition that is general enough to be applicable for whatever modalities and in whichever domains. Secondly, it provides an efficient incremental learning algorithm that, following an approach "by example", allows to generate the production rules of the defined grammar starting from the acceptable multimodal sentences

Exploring Mobile Applications for Educational Purposes

Mobile technology is a field of intensive research and steady development. Edutainment is emerging as one of the most innovative use of technological applications in teaching/learning activities and it offers various opportunities for the third generation (3G) mobile devices, such as PDAs and smart phones. In this paper we explore mobile services and applications in the edutainment area and we concentrate both on educational tools for learners on the move and on the use of XML in the development of these mobile services

A Sketch-Based Approach for Interior Design

Interior design is a multi-faceted activity in which creative and technical solutions are applied within a structure to achieve an interior environment that observes requirements of the client. In this paper we describe our approach to aid the interaction between consumers and professional designer during the design process. We discuss a methodology based on a clear separation between several activities in which we underline the usefulness of application of matching recognition techniques derives from digital image elaboration world

MUST 2010:Welcome message from workshop organizers: FutureTech 2010

On behalf of the 2010 International Workshop on Multimedia and Semantic Technologies (MUST2010), we are pleased to welcome you to Busan, Korea. The workshop will foster state-of-the-art research in the area of multimedia semantic computing including multimedia acquisition, generation, storage, processing, and retrieval of large-scale multimedia information and semantic web technologies. The MUST-10 will also provide an opportunity for academic and industry professionals to discuss the latest issues and progress in the area of multimedia and semantic web