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The following articles give more detail about the Talking Heads experiment and the background to the experiment.

Steels, L. and Kaplan, F. (1999)
Bootstrapping Grounded Word Semantics.
In: Briscoe, T. (ed.) (1999) Linguistic evolution through language acquisition: formal and computational models. Cambridge University Press.

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Steels, L. (1997)
The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents.
In: Pollack, M. (ed.) (1997) Proceedings of IJCAI 97. Morgan Kauffman Publishers, Los Angeles.

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644K

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105K

Steels, L., Belpaeme, T. and Van Looveren, J. (1998)
The Construction and Acquisition of Visual Categories.
In: Birk, A. and Demiris, J. (eds.) (1998) Proceedings of the 6th European Workshop on Learning Robots, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence, Springer.

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735K

Frédéric Kaplan (2000)
Dynamiques De l'Auto-Organisation Lexicale
In Cognito,numéro 15 (1999),3-23

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1024K

Luc Steels (1997)
Der Ursprung der Sprache

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[BOOK]

A pre-edition of a book in progress by Luc Steels:

"The TALKING HEADS EXPERIMENT.
Words and Meanings"

has been printed for the LABORATORIUM exhibition in Antwerp. The book describes in 250 pages the rationale behind the experiment and how it works.

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