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- Title
The evolution of Lexical Usage Profiles in social networks.
- Authors
Schaden, Gerhard
- Abstract
This paper investigates how network structure influences the outcomes of reinforcement learning in a series of multi-agent simulations. Its basic results are the following: (i) contact between agents in networks creates similarity in the usage patterns of the signals these agents use; (ii) in case of complete networks, the bigger the network, the smaller the lexical differentiation; and (iii) in networks consisting of linked cliques, the distance between usage patterns reflects on average the structure of the network.
- Subjects
SOCIAL networks; MULTIAGENT systems; LEXICON; TECHNOLOGICAL innovations; SEMANTICS
- Publication
Belgian Journal of Linguistics, 2016, Vol 30, Issue 1, p193
- ISSN
0774-5141
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1075/bjl.30.09sch