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The paper describes a mechanism whereby agents generate perceptual distinctions through a series of adaptive discrimination games and share these distinctions through adaptive language games. Results from computer simulations as well as experiments on robotic agents are presented.
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Steels, L. (1997). Constructing and sharing perceptual distinctions. In: van Someren, M., Widmer, G. (eds) Machine Learning: ECML-97. ECML 1997. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1224. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-62858-4_68
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