The Quest for the Origin/Evolution of Language
Based on Alife Methodology

• Motivation

  

• Papers

  • Historical Papers
    • Takaya Arita, "A Self-Organization System that obtains Communication Ability", Graduation Thesis, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo, 1983. First generation LangE -1983 (GIF, 135KB)
    • K. Nakano, T. Ohmori, T. Arita and S. Takeda, "On a Self-Organizing System Obtaining the Ability to Exchange Information between Information Processors", SICE 2nd Knowledge Engineering Symposium, 1984 (in Japanese).
    • K. Nakano, K. Sakaguchi, Y. Isotani and T. Ohmori, "Self Organizing System Obtaining Communication Ability - A Primitive Model for Language Generation", Biological Cybernetics, 58, 417-425, 1988.
  • Current Studies
    • Takaya ARITA, Keiichi UNNO and Kimio KAWAGUCHI, "A Model for Evolution of Communication in a Population of Artificial Organisms", Transactions of Information Processing Society of Japan, Vol. 36, No. 4, pp. 859-867, 1995 (in Japanese).
    • T. Arita, Unno, Kawaguchi, "A Primitive Model for Language Generation by Evolution and Learning", International Workshop on Biologically Inspired Evolutionary Systems (Bies '95), pp. 163-170, 1995. (abstract)
      
    • Takaya Arita and C. E. Taylor, "A Simple Model for the Evolution of Communication", The Fifth Annual Conference On Evolutionary Programming, 1996. (abstract)
    • Takaya Arita, "Language as an Emergent System: An Approach to the Origin/Evolution of Vocaburary", Proceedings of the 24th Symposium on the Intelligent Systems, pp. 7-12, 1997 (in Japanese).
    • Takaya Arita and Yuhji Koyama, "A Model for the Evolution of Vocaburary in a Communication System", Proceedings of the 54th Natinal Convention IPSJ, No. 2, pp. 379-380, 1997 (in Japanese). (graphs and captions in English)
      
    • Yuhji Koyama and Takaya Arita, "A Model for the Evolution of Vocaburary in a Communication System and Group Behavior Based on it", Proc. of the Symposium on Artificial Life and its Application, pp. 63-70, Information Processing Society of Japan, 1997.
      
    • Takaya Arita and Yuhji Koyama, "Evolution of Linguistic Diversity in a Simple Communication System", Proc. of Artificial Life VI, pp. 9-17, 1998 (PDF format).
      
    • Takaya Arita and Yuhji Koyama, "Evolution of Linguistic Diversity in a Simple Communication System", Artificial Life, Vol. 4, No. 1, MIT Press, pp. 109-124, 1998.
      
    • Jun Kitano and Takaya Arita, "An Evolutionary Model of Indirect Reciprocity Allowing Transformation of 'Gossip' Information", Proc. of Alife Symposium: New Trends in Artificial Life (SICE SIG Notes, PG-0002), pp. 99-104, 2000 (in Japanese).
      
    • Jun Kitano and Takaya Arita, "An Evolutionary Simulation of Indirect Reciprocity Allowing Transformation of 'Gossip' Information", Reprints of the 29th Conference of the Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology, pp. 12-15, 2000 (in Japanese).
      
    • Takaya Arita and Jun Kitano, "Supplementary Explanation of our Presentaion at the 29th JAMS Conference", Newsletter of the Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology, Vol. 15, No. 2, p. 3, 2000 (in Japanese).
      
    • Takaya Arita, "A Constructive Approach toward Life based on the Images of Dynamic Fitness-Landscapes", Philosophy of Science, Philosophy of Science Society Japan, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2000 (in Japanese, in press).

• Newspaper/Magazine Articles

  • Nikkei Sangyo Shimbun, 5/10, 1994 (in Japanese) --- GIF, 208KB
  • Newsweek Japanese Edition , 12/27, pp. 62-71, 1995 (in Japanese) --- JPEG 57KB
    ---> The original manuscript by Dana Lewis (in English)

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