NATURAL LANGUAGE AND DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS - Evolutionary Perspective

Oxana Lapteva

2009

Abstract

The mechanisms of language change and variation provide an important input for any system development in the context of its dynamic character, self-organisational aspects and evolution. This work considers a different view on the evolution (in comparison with biological and cultural explanations) and its underlying laws by looking at usage frequency. It aims to explore the mechanisms and driving forces of natural language evolution and link them to the research of Digital Ecosystems involving design and implementation of systems. The frequency-based approach explaining the natural language change and variation can be effectively applied to the evolving formal systems (networks, knowledge spaces, dynamic interfaces, etc.). This paper presents and discusses a simple but very powerful mechanism of evolution: frequency.

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Lapteva O. (2009). NATURAL LANGUAGE AND DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS - Evolutionary Perspective . In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-014-6, pages 314-317. DOI: 10.5220/0002335003140317


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@conference{icec09,
author={Oxana Lapteva},
title={NATURAL LANGUAGE AND DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS - Evolutionary Perspective},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={314-317},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002335003140317},
isbn={978-989-674-014-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Computational Intelligence - Volume 1: ICEC, (IJCCI 2009)
TI - NATURAL LANGUAGE AND DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS - Evolutionary Perspective
SN - 978-989-674-014-6
AU - Lapteva O.
PY - 2009
SP - 314
EP - 317
DO - 10.5220/0002335003140317