Simon Kirby

According to our database, Simon Kirby authored at least 56 papers between 1999 and 2024.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2024

Predictability and Variation in Language Are Differentially Affected by Learning and Production.

Aislinn Keogh, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Cogn. Sci., April, 2024

Evaluating the Relative Importance of Wordhood Cues Using Statistical Learning.

Elizabeth Pankratz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Cogn. Sci., March, 2024

2023

Documenting a Reduction in Signing Space in Nicaraguan Sign Language Using Depth and Motion Capture.

Molly Flaherty, Asha Sato, Simon Kirby

Cogn. Sci., April, 2023

2022

The Effects of Iconicity and Conventionalization on Word Order Preferences.

Yasamin Motamedi, Lucie Wolters, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby

Cogn. Sci., 2022

Expressivity of Emergent Languages is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability.

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory Wallace Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Learning Representations, 2022

2021

Expressivity of Emergent Language is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability.

Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory W. Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2021

Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study.

Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang, Kenny Smith

Cogn. Sci., 2021

2020

Communicative need modulates competition in language change.

Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2020

Compositional languages emerge in a neural iterated learning model.

Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Matthieu Labeau, Shay B. Cohen, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Learning Representations, 2020

Simple kinship systems are more learnable.

Kenny Smith, Stella Frank, Sara Rolando, Simon Kirby, Jia Loy

Proceedings of the 42th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2020

2019

Learning and Production in the Explanation of Regularization Behaviour: a Computational Model.

Chiara Semenzin, Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Cumulative cultural evolution in a non-copying task in children and Guinea baboons.

Carmen Saldana, Joël Fagot, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith, Nicolas Claidière

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

Experimental conditions affect how social cues guide the regularisation of unpredictable variation.

Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 41th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2019

2018

A Social Approach to Rule Dynamics Using an Agent-Based Model.

Christine F. Cuskley, Vittorio Loreto, Simon Kirby

Top. Cogn. Sci., 2018

Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora.

Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2018

Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language.

Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2018

Adult Learning and Language Simplification.

Mark Atkinson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby

Cogn. Sci., 2018

2017

The cognitive roots of regularization in language.

Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

CoRR, 2017

Minimal Requirements for the Emergence of Learned Signaling.

Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Cogn. Sci., 2017

The Cultural Evolution of Structured Languages in an Open-Ended, Continuous World.

John W. Carr, Kenny Smith, Hannah Cornish, Simon Kirby

Cogn. Sci., 2017

A model of cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading.

Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Silent gesture and noun phrase universals.

Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels?

Carmen Saldana, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Iconicity vs. Systematicity in Artificial Language Learning.

Alan Ks Nielsen, Julia Simner, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages.

Yasamin Motamedi, Marieke Schouwstra, Jennifer Culbertson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

Language-users choose short words in predictive contexts in an artificial language task.

Jasmeen Kanwal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2017

2016

Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language.

Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Bart de Boer

Cogn. Sci., 2016

Modelling the co-development of word learning and perspective-taking.

Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

Cultural Evolution Across Domains: Language, Technology and Art.

Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby, John W. Carr

Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2016

2015

Culture: Copying, Compression, and Conventionality.

Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby

Cogn. Sci., 2015

Word Meanings Evolve to Selectively Preserve Distinctions on Salient Dimensions.

Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Cogn. Sci., 2015

2014

Emergence of combinatorial structure and economy through iterated learning with continuous acoustic signals.

Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Bart de Boer

J. Phonetics, 2014

Experimental study on the influence of controller firmware on multirotor actuator dynamics.

Oyvind Magnussen, Geir Hovland, Morten Ottestad, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Robotic and Sensors Environments, 2014

Social influences on the regularization of unpredictable linguistic variation.

Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2014

2013

Combinatorial structure and iconicity in artificial whistled languages.

Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Bart de Boer

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Learning, Feedback and Information in Self-Organizing Communication Systems.

Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Linguistic structure is an evolutionary trade-off between simplicity and expressivity.

Kenny Smith, Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Communication Leads to the Emergence of Sub-optimal Category Structures.

Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

A robustness approach to theory building: A case study of language evolution.

Liz Irvine, Sean Roberts, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain.

Vanessa Ferdinand, Bill Thompson, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

Systems from Sequences: an Iterated Learning Account of the Emergence of Systematic Structure in a Non-Linguistic Task.

Hannah Cornish, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2013

2011

Cultural emergence of combinatorial structure in an artificial whistled language.

Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Carol Padden

Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

Integrating the Horizontal and Vertical Cultural Transmission of Novel Communication Systems.

Carrie Theisen-White, Simon Kirby, Jon Oberlander

Proceedings of the 33th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 2011

2006

Understanding Linguistic Evolution by Visualizing the Emergence of Topographic Mappings.

Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby

Artif. Life, 2006

Evolving Distributed Representations for Language with Self-Organizing Maps.

Simon D. Levy, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the Symbol Grounding and Beyond, 2006

Measuring Language Divergence by Intra-Lexical Comparison.

T. Mark Ellison, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the ACL 2006, 2006

2003

Iterated Learning: A Framework for the Emergence of Language.

Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Henry Brighton

Artif. Life, 2003

Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the Cultural Emergence of Compositional Structure.

Kenny Smith, Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby

Adv. Complex Syst., 2003

2002

The View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling.

Michael Wheeler, Seth Bullock, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Jason Noble, Mark A. Bedau, Philip Husbands, Simon Kirby, Anil K. Seth

Artif. Life, 2002

Natural Language From Artificial Life.

Simon Kirby

Artif. Life, 2002

Situated Cognition and the Role of Multi-agent Models in Explaining Language Structure.

Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith

Proceedings of the Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems: Adaptation and Multi-Agent Learning, 2002

2001

Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure-an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity.

Simon Kirby

IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput., 2001

I Like What I Know: How Recognition-Based Decisions Can Structure the Environment.

Peter M. Todd, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 6th European Conference, 2001

The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language.

Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 6th European Conference, 2001

Filled pauses and their status in the mental lexicon.

Richard Shillcock, Simon Kirby, Scott McDonald, Chris Brew

Proceedings of the ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Disfluency in Spontaneous Speech, 2001

1999

Syntax out of Learning: The Cultural Evolution of Structured Communication in a Population of Induction Algorithms.

Simon Kirby

Proceedings of the Advances in Artificial Life, 5th European Conference, 1999