Recent research suggests that some human-like social skills evolved in dogs (Canis familiaris) during domestication as an incidental by-product of selection for “tame” forms of behavior. It is still possible, however, that the social skills of certain dog breeds came under direct selection that led to further increases in social problem solving ability. To test this hypothesis, different breeds...

A theory of communication between autonomous agents should make testable predictions about which communicative behaviors are collaborative, and provide a framework for determining the features of a communicative situation that affect whether a behavior is collaborative. The results presented here are derived from a two-phase empirical method. First, we analyze a corpus of naturallyoccurring pro...

A problem faced by microplanners in language generation systems is what information should be placed in clauseinitial position, and why. We identify two principal communicative functions associated with this position and define concepts that enable microplanning rules to be built.

The article discusses the results of operationalizing Situational Strategic Planning adapted to the local level in health, considering the communicative approach and equity in a parish in Venezuela. Two innovative criteria were used: estimated health needs and analysis of the actors' potential for participation. The problems identified were compared to the corresponding article on rights in the...

This study focuses on the problem of language transfer in foreign language learning. We analyze the meaning relationship between a learner's mother language and target language, and propose a CGM (Communicative Gap Model) due to language difference. We develop an educational system called Neckle (Network-based Communicative Kanji Learning Environment) to support foreign language learning throug...

A theory of communication between autonomous agents should make testable predictions about which communicative behaviors are collaborative, and provide a framework for determining the features of a communicative situation that affect whether a behavior is collaborative. The results presented here are derived from a two-phase empirical method. First, we analyze a corpus of naturally-occurring pr...

Communication disorders are a typical problem in schizophrenic patients. The aim of the present study is to empirically investigate the role played by a possible deficit in the theory of mind, in the executive function and in the ability to handle sophisticated mental representations in order to explain the poor communicative performance of a group of schizophrenic patients. In particular, we s...

Zipf's law seems to be ubiquitous in human languages and appears to be a universal property of complex communicating systems. Following the early proposal made by Zipf concerning the presence of a tension between the efforts of speaker and hearer in a communication system, we introduce evolution by means of a variational approach to the problem based on Kullback's Minimum Discrimination of Info...

This paper investigates the development of experience-based meaning creation and explores the problem of establishing successful communication systems in a population of agents. The aim of the work is to investigate how such systems can develop, without reliance on phenomena not found in actual human language learning, such as the explicit transmission of meaning or the provision of reliable er...