Dr. Paul Vogt
Paul Vogt, Ph.D. is Researcher, Independent Scientist, and Guest
Researcher, Induction of Linguistic Knowledge group of the
Communication and Information Sciences department, Tilburg University.
He is currently living in Mozambique, where he is finishing work on
the
European project
New Emerging World models Through Individual,
Evolutionary and Social learning (NEW TIES).
His main interest is studying the origins and evolution of language
using AI techniques, such as robotics, multi-agent simulations, and
mathematical modeling. Within this broad field, his research focuses
on language acquisition, symbol grounding, emergence of
compositionality, and cultural dynamics. He designed the
THSim v4.0.3: The
Talking Heads simulation tool. This simulation toolkit has been
designed to study some aspects of language evolution computationally.
He has been tutoring various courses on modeling language evolution
at international conferences and various universities, and has been
active in organizing various workshops in the field.
Paul authored many articles on his research, including
Variation, competition and selection in the self-organization of
compositionality,
Language evolution and robotics: Issues in symbol grounding and
language
acquisition,
Group size effects on the emergence of compositional structures in
language,
Cumulative cultural evolution: Can we ever learn more?,
Meaning development versus predefined meanings in language evolution
models, and
Minimum cost and the emergence of the Zipf-Mandelbrot law,
and coauthored
Social Learning in Population-based Adaptive Systems and
A hybrid model for learning word-meaning mappings.
Read the
full list of his publications!
Paul earned his MSc in
Cognitive Science and Engineering (currently called Artificial
Intelligence) at the University of Groningen in 1997 with the thesis
A Perceptual Grounded Self-Organizing Lexicon in Robotic
Agents
and his Ph.D. in
Artificial Intelligence at the Artificial Intelligence Lab, Brussels,
Belgium in 2000 with the thesis
Lexicon Grounding on Mobile Robots.
Read his LinkedIn profile.