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Journal Articles
- 2022
- [j17]Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Eitan Grossman, Inbal Arnon:
The Impact of Information Structure on the Emergence of Differential Object Marking: An Experimental Study. Cogn. Sci. 46(3) (2022) - 2021
- [j16]Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang, Kenny Smith:
Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study. Cogn. Sci. 45(9) (2021) - [j15]Jia E. Loy, Kenny Smith:
Speakers Align With Their Partner's Overspecification During Interaction. Cogn. Sci. 45(12) (2021) - [j14]Tamar Johnson, Kexin Gao, Kenny Smith, Hugh Rabagliati, Jennifer Culbertson:
Investigating the effects of i-complexity and e-complexity on the learnability of morphological systems. J. Lang. Model. 9(1) (2021) - 2020
- [j13]Kenny Smith:
How Culture and Biology Interact to Shape Language and the Language Faculty. Top. Cogn. Sci. 12(2): 690-712 (2020) - [j12]Benjamin Wilson, Michelle Spierings, Andrea Ravignani, Jutta L. Mueller, Toben H. Mintz, Frank Wijnen, Anne van der Kant, Kenny Smith, Arnaud Rey:
Non-adjacent Dependency Learning in Humans and Other Animals . Top. Cogn. Sci. 12(3): 843-858 (2020) - 2019
- [j11]Lucía Castillo, Kenny Smith, Holly P. Branigan:
Interaction Promotes the Adaptation of Referential Conventions to the Communicative Context. Cogn. Sci. 43(8) (2019) - 2018
- [j10]Mark Atkinson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby:
Adult Learning and Language Simplification. Cogn. Sci. 42(8): 2818-2854 (2018) - 2017
- [j9]Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
Minimal Requirements for the Emergence of Learned Signaling. Cogn. Sci. 41(3): 623-658 (2017) - [j8]John W. Carr, Kenny Smith, Hannah Cornish, Simon Kirby:
The Cultural Evolution of Structured Languages in an Open-Ended, Continuous World. Cogn. Sci. 41(4): 892-923 (2017) - 2015
- [j7]Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
Word Meanings Evolve to Selectively Preserve Distinctions on Salient Dimensions. Cogn. Sci. 39(1): 212-226 (2015) - 2011
- [j6]Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith, Richard A. Blythe:
Cross-Situational Learning: An Experimental Study of Word-Learning Mechanisms. Cogn. Sci. 35(3): 480-498 (2011) - 2010
- [j5]Richard A. Blythe, Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith:
Learning Times for Large Lexicons Through Cross-Situational Learning. Cogn. Sci. 34(4): 620-642 (2010) - 2003
- [j4]Kenny Smith, Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby:
Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the Cultural Emergence of Compositional Structure. Adv. Complex Syst. 6(4): 537-558 (2003) - [j3]Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Henry Brighton:
Iterated Learning: A Framework for the Emergence of Language. Artif. Life 9(4): 371-386 (2003) - 2002
- [j2]Kenny Smith:
Natural Selection and Cultural Selection in the Evolution of Communication. Adapt. Behav. 10(1): 25-45 (2002) - [j1]Kenny Smith:
The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks. Connect. Sci. 14(1): 65-84 (2002)
Conference and Workshop Papers
- 2024
- [c49]Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith:
lpNTK: Better Generalisation with Less Data via Sample Interaction During Learning. ICLR 2024 - 2023
- [c48]Vlad C. Nedelcu, Kenny Smith, Daniel Lassiter:
Degree of heterogeneity in the contexts of language users mediates the cognitive-communicative trade-off in semantic categorization. CogSci 2023 - [c47]Kenny Smith, Clem Ashton, Helen Sims-Williams:
The Relationship Between Frequency and Irregularity in the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Experimental Study. CogSci 2023 - [c46]Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Inbal Arnon, Jennifer Culbertson:
Communicative efficiency is present in young children and becomes more adult-like with age. CogSci 2023 - [c45]Henry Conklin, Kenny Smith:
Compositionality with Variation Reliably Emerges in Neural Networks. ICLR 2023 - 2022
- [c44]Josephine Bowerman, Kenny Smith:
An experimental study of semantic extension in a novel communication system. CogSci 2022 - [c43]Henry Coxe-Conklin, Kenny Smith:
Intertwining Generalization and Memorization. CogSci 2022 - [c42]Vlad C. Nedelcu, Kenny Smith:
The complexity of a language is shaped by the communicative needs of its users and by the hierarchical nature of their social inferences. CogSci 2022 - [c41]Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson:
Agreement can facilitate learning of noun class systems. CogSci 2022 - [c40]Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory Wallace Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith:
Expressivity of Emergent Languages is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability. ICLR 2022 - 2021
- [c39]Henry Conklin, Bailin Wang, Kenny Smith, Ivan Titov:
Meta-Learning to Compositionally Generalize. ACL/IJCNLP (1) 2021: 3322-3335 - 2020
- [c38]Henry Coxe-Conklin, Stella Frank, Robert Truswell, Kenny Smith:
Modelling the Emergence of Positional Compositional Structure. CogSci 2020 - [c37]Stella Frank, Kenny Smith, Christine F. Cuskley:
Learner dynamics in a model of wug inflection: integrating frequency and phonology. CogSci 2020 - [c36]Jia E. Loy, Kenny Smith:
Influence of partner behaviour on overspecification. CogSci 2020 - [c35]Johanne Nedergaard, Kenny Smith:
Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Perspective-taking in a language game. CogSci 2020 - [c34]Carmen Saldana, Nicolas Claidière, Joël Fagot, Kenny Smith:
Rational After All: Changes in Probability Matching Behaviour Across Time in Humans and Monkeys. CogSci 2020 - [c33]Kenny Smith, Stella Frank, Sara Rolando, Simon Kirby, Jia E. Loy:
Simple kinship systems are more learnable. CogSci 2020 - 2019
- [c32]Carmen Saldana, Joël Fagot, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith, Nicolas Claidière:
Cumulative cultural evolution in a non-copying task in children and Guinea baboons. CogSci 2019: 1001-1007 - [c31]Svenja Wagner, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson:
Acquiring Agglutinating and Fusional Languages Can Be Similarly Difficult: Evidence from an Adaptive Tracking Study. CogSci 2019: 3050-3056 - [c30]Tamar Johnson, Jennifer Culbertson, Hugh Rabagliati, Kenny Smith:
Assessing Integrative Complexity as a Measure of Morphological Learning. CogSci 2019: 3292 - [c29]Christine F. Cuskley, Stella Frank, Kenny Smith:
From wugged to wug: Reverse generalisation of stems from novel past tense verbs. CogSci 2019: 3438 - [c28]Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
Experimental conditions affect how social cues guide the regularisation of unpredictable variation. CogSci 2019: 3454 - [c27]Stella Frank, Kenny Smith:
Language stability and change in age-dependent networks. CogSci 2019: 3460 - 2018
- [c26]Jennifer Culbertson, Hanna Jarvinen, Frances Haggarty, Kenny Smith:
Do children privilege phonological cues in noun class learning? CogSci 2018 - [c25]Stella Frank, Kenny Smith:
A model of linguistic accommodation leading to language simplification. CogSci 2018 - [c24]Robert X. D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Kenny Smith, Noah D. Goodman:
Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context. CogSci 2018 - 2017
- [c23]Olga Feher, Kenny Smith:
The differential effects of transmission and interaction on linguistic variation. CogSci 2017 - [c22]Jasmeen Kanwal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby:
Language-users choose short words in predictive contexts in an artificial language task. CogSci 2017 - [c21]Yasamin Motamedi, Marieke Schouwstra, Jennifer Culbertson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby:
The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages. CogSci 2017 - [c20]Alan Ks Nielsen, Julia Simner, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
Iconicity vs. Systematicity in Artificial Language Learning. CogSci 2017 - [c19]Cathleen O'Grady, Thom Scott-Phillips, Suilin Lavelle, Kenny Smith:
The dot perspective task revisited: Evidence for directional effects. CogSci 2017 - [c18]Carmen Saldana, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson:
Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? CogSci 2017 - [c17]Kenny Smith, Olga Feher, Jennifer Culbertson:
The influence of word-order harmony on structural priming in artificial languages. CogSci 2017 - [c16]Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith:
A model of cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading. CogSci 2017 - 2016
- [c15]Sieghard Beller, Andrea Bender, Christine A. Caldwell, Morten H. Christiansen, Karenleigh A. Overmann, Kenny Smith:
The cultural evolution of cognition. CogSci 2016 - [c14]Robert X. D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, Olga Feher, Kenny Smith, Robert L. Goldstone, Tom Griffiths:
The Emergence of Conventions. CogSci 2016 - [c13]Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith:
Modelling the co-development of word learning and perspective-taking. CogSci 2016 - 2014
- [c12]Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
Social influences on the regularization of unpredictable linguistic variation. CogSci 2014 - [c11]Kenny Smith, Olga Feher, Nikolaus Ritt:
Eliminating unpredictable linguistic variation through interaction. CogSci 2014 - 2013
- [c10]Hannah Cornish, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby:
Systems from Sequences: an Iterated Learning Account of the Emergence of Systematic Structure in a Non-Linguistic Task. CogSci 2013 - [c9]Vanessa Ferdinand, Bill Thompson, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain. CogSci 2013 - [c8]Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
Communication Leads to the Emergence of Sub-optimal Category Structures. CogSci 2013 - [c7]Kenny Smith, Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby:
Linguistic structure is an evolutionary trade-off between simplicity and expressivity. CogSci 2013 - [c6]Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
Learning, Feedback and Information in Self-Organizing Communication Systems. CogSci 2013 - 2006
- [c5]Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith, Richard A. Blythe, Paul Vogt:
Cross-Situational Learning: A Mathematical Approach. EELC 2006: 31-44 - 2003
- [c4]Kenny Smith, James R. Hurford:
Language Evolution in Populations: Extending the Iterated Learning Model. ECAL 2003: 507-516 - [c3]Kenny Smith:
Learning Biases for the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Associative Network Model. ECAL 2003: 517-524 - 2002
- [c2]Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
Situated Cognition and the Role of Multi-agent Models in Explaining Language Structure. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems 2002: 88-109 - 2001
- [c1]Kenny Smith:
The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication. ECAL 2001: 637-640
Informal and Other Publications
- 2024
- [i14]Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith:
Sample Relationship from Learning Dynamics Matters for Generalisation. CoRR abs/2401.08808 (2024) - [i13]Henry Conklin, Kenny Smith:
Representations as Language: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Interpretability. CoRR abs/2406.02449 (2024) - 2023
- [i12]Juan Guerrero Montero, Andres Karjus, Kenny Smith, Richard A. Blythe:
Reliable identification of selection mechanisms in language change. CoRR abs/2305.15914 (2023) - 2021
- [i11]Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang, Kenny Smith:
Conceptual similarity and communicative need shape colexification: an experimental study. CoRR abs/2103.11024 (2021) - [i10]Robert X. D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Michael C. Frank, Kenny Smith, Thomas L. Griffiths, Noah D. Goodman:
From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention. CoRR abs/2104.05857 (2021) - [i9]Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory W. Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith:
Expressivity of Emergent Language is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability. CoRR abs/2106.03982 (2021) - [i8]Henry Conklin, Bailin Wang, Kenny Smith, Ivan Titov:
Meta-Learning to Compositionally Generalize. CoRR abs/2106.04252 (2021) - 2020
- [i7]Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
Communicative need modulates competition in language change. CoRR abs/2006.09277 (2020) - 2019
- [i6]Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Serhii Havrylov, Stella Frank, Ivan Titov, Kenny Smith:
The Emergence of Compositional Languages for Numeric Concepts Through Iterated Learning in Neural Agents. CoRR abs/1910.05291 (2019) - 2018
- [i5]Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language. CoRR abs/1806.00699 (2018) - [i4]Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora. CoRR abs/1811.01275 (2018) - 2017
- [i3]Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith:
The cognitive roots of regularization in language. CoRR abs/1703.03442 (2017) - 2014
- [i2]Richard A. Blythe, Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith:
Word learning under infinite uncertainty. CoRR abs/1412.2487 (2014) - 2013
- [i1]Rainer Reisenauer, Kenny Smith, Richard A. Blythe:
Statistical mechanics of lexicon learning in an uncertain and nonuniform world. CoRR abs/1302.5526 (2013)
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