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title: "Concept Generation in Language Evolution"
authors:
  - "Martha Anne Flinders Lewis"
  - "Jonathan Lawry"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/501"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2013/0501.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 2013
pages: "3229-3229"
track: ""
keywords:
---

# Concept Generation in Language Evolution

Martha Anne Flinders Lewis, Jonathan Lawry

*Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 3229-3229.

## Abstract

This thesis investigates the generation of new concepts from combinations of existing concepts as a language evolves. We give a method for combining concepts, and will be investigating the utility of composite concepts in language evolution and thence the utility of concept generation.