Luc Steels
Artificial Intelligence scientist, research director
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Luc Steels is a Belgian scientist and artist. Steels is considered a pioneer of Artificial Intelligence in Europe who has made contributions to expert systems, behavior-based robotics, artificial life and evolutionary computational linguistics. He was a fellow of the Catalan Institution for Research and Advanced Studies ICREA associated as a research professor with the Institute for Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona. He was formerly founding Director of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel and founding director of the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris. Steels has also been active in the arts collaborating with visual artists and theater makers and composing music for opera.
Luc Steels's Published Works
Published Works
- Components of Expertise (1990) (623)
- Progress in Artificial Intelligence (1995) (457)
- coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: a case study for colour (2005) (440)
- Evolving grounded communication for robots (2003) (428)
- A Self-Organizing Spatial Vocabulary (1995) (415)
- NoiseTube: Measuring and mapping noise pollution with mobile phones (2009) (412)
- Language as a Complex Adaptive System (2000) (368)
- The synthetic modeling of language origins (1997) (362)
- Sharp transition towards shared vocabularies in multi-agent systems (2005) (358)
- Second-Generation Expert Systems (1985) (353)
- The Artificial Life Roots of Artificial Intelligence (1993) (331)
- Cooperation between distributed agents through self-organisation (1990) (308)
- Grounding adaptive language games in robotic agents (1997) (296)
- Modeling the cultural evolution of language. (2011) (267)
- Language games for autonomous robots (2001) (259)
- AIBO’s first words (2000) (251)
- Language networks: Their structure, function, and evolution (2007) (233)
- The Origins of Syntax in Visually Grounded Robotic Agents (1997) (230)
- The origins of intelligence (1996) (226)
- Citizen noise pollution monitoring (2009) (214)
- Towards a theory of emergent functionality (1991) (197)
- Connectionism in Perspective (1989) (194)
- The symbol grounding problem has been solved, so what’s next? (2008) (184)
- Design patterns in fluid construction grammar (2011) (183)
- The artificial life route to artificial intelligence : building embodied (1995) (178)
- Perceptually grounded meaning creation (1996) (171)
- The Biology and Technology of Intelligent Autonomous Agents (1995) (169)
- Synthesising the origins of language and meaning using co-evolution, self-organisation and level formation (1998) (165)
- Crucial factors in the origins of word-meaning (2000) (158)
- Bootstrapping grounded word semantics (1999) (153)
- When are robots intelligent autonomous agents? (1995) (149)
- Experiments in cultural language evolution (2012) (147)
- The "Artificial Life" Route to "Artificial Intelligence": Building Situated Embodied Agents (1995) (143)
- The emergence and evolution of linguistic structure: from lexical to grammatical communication systems (2005) (131)
- A case study in the behavior-oriented design of autonomous agents (1994) (125)
- Social dynamics: Emergence of language (2007) (124)
- The Origins of Ontologies and Communication Conventions in Multi-Agent Systems (2004) (124)
- Constructivist Development of Grounded Construction Grammar (2004) (110)
- Embodied Artificial Intelligence (2004) (103)
- The social learning of language and meaning (2001) (102)
- Unify and Merge in Fluid Construction Grammar (2006) (101)
- Perspective alignment in spatial language (2006) (99)
- In-depth analysis of the Naming Game dynamics: the homogeneous mixing case (2008) (99)
- Corporate Knowledge Management (1992) (98)
- Self-organising vocabularies (1996) (97)
- The Autotelic Principle (2003) (94)
- Shared grounding of event descriptions by autonomous robots (2003) (92)
- Semiotic Dynamics for Embodied Agents (2006) (92)
- The componential framework and its role in reusability (1993) (91)
- Agent-Based Models of Strategies for the Emergence and Evolution of Grammatical Agreement (2013) (86)
- Emergent adaptive lexicons (1996) (86)
- Situated Grounded Word Semantics (1999) (85)
- Building agents out of autonomous behavior systems (1995) (84)
- Experiments on the emergence of human communication (2006) (82)
- The Spontaneous Self-organization of an Adaptive Language (1995) (81)
- Intelligence with representation (2003) (80)
- Language re-entrance and the 'inner voice'. (2003) (79)
- Spatially Distributed Naming Games (1998) (77)
- Grounding symbols through evolutionary language games (2002) (77)
- Exploiting analogical representations (1990) (77)
- Emergent functionality in robotic agents through on-line evolution (1994) (76)
- The Emergence of Grammar in Communicating Autonomous Robotic Agents (2000) (67)
- Collective Learning and Semiotic Dynamics (1999) (67)
- Stochasticity as a source of innovation in language games (1998) (66)
- The Grounded Naming Game (2012) (66)
- Integrating collaborative tagging and emergent semantics for image retrieval (2006) (66)
- Language Grounding in Robots (2012) (64)
- A Learning Zone of One's Own: Sharing Representations and Flow in Collaborative Learning Enviroments (2004) (63)
- Flexible word meaning in embodied agents (2008) (62)
- Steps towards Common Sense (1988) (61)
- The Artiicial Life Roots of Artiicial Intelligence (1993) (60)
- Words and meanings (1999) (58)
- A (very) Brief Introduction to Fluid Construction Grammar (2006) (58)
- Constructing and Sharing Perceptual Distinctions (1997) (57)
- The Talking Heads experiment (2015) (56)
- Hierarchy in Fluid Construction Grammars (2005) (53)
- The Deepening of Expert Systems (1989) (52)
- The Talking Heads experiment: Origins of words and meanings (2015) (51)
- Spontaneous Lexicon Change (1998) (49)
- The Recruitment Theory of Language Origins (2007) (48)
- The robot in the mirror (2008) (47)
- Augmenting Navigation for Collaborative Tagging with Emergent Semantics (2006) (46)
- Collaborative tagging as distributed cognition (2006) (45)
- The puzzle of language evolution (2000) (43)
- Open-ended Procedural Semantics (2012) (43)
- Discovering the Competitors (1996) (40)
- Introduction. Self-organization and selection in cultural language evolution (2012) (39)
- A Future for Knowledge Acquisition (1994) (39)
- Learning in second generation expert systems (1986) (38)
- Beyond Objects (1994) (38)
- The Evolution of Communication Systems by Adaptive Agents (2002) (36)
- How Grammar Emerges to Dampen Combinatorial Search in Parsing (2006) (36)
- A Perceptual System for Language Game Experiments (2012) (35)
- Emergent functional grammar for space (2012) (34)
- Intelligence — Dynamics and Representations (1995) (34)
- Co-Acquisition of Syntax and Semantics - An Investigation in Spatial Language (2015) (33)
- Fluid Construction Grammar (2013) (31)
- Language learning and language contact (1997) (30)
- The grounded colour naming game (2009) (29)
- The Construction and Acquisition of Visual Categories (1997) (29)
- Introducing Fluid Construction Grammar (2011) (29)
- Grounding Language through Evolutionary Language Games (2012) (29)
- Enhancing the Knowledge Engineering Process: Contributions from Esprit (1993) (28)
- What can mathematical, computational and robotic models tell us about the origins of syntax? (2009) (28)
- Problems in Indexing Problem Solving Methods (1997) (27)
- How to make construction grammars fluid and robust (2011) (27)
- How to do experiments in artificial language evolution and why (2006) (27)
- The Barcelona declaration for the proper development and usage of artificial intelligence in Europe (2018) (26)
- A first encounter with Fluid Construction Grammar (2011) (26)
- Agent-based models for the emergence and evolution of grammar (2016) (26)
- A design pattern for phrasal constructions (2011) (26)
- Diagnosis with a function-fault model (1989) (26)
- Linking in Fluid Construction Grammars (2005) (25)
- Fifty Years of AI: From Symbols to Embodiment - and Back (2006) (25)
- Reasoning Modeled As A Society Of Communicating Experts (1979) (25)
- What triggers the emergence of grammar (2005) (24)
- Emergent Action Language on Real Robots (2012) (24)
- A selectionist mechanism for autonomous behavior acquisition (1997) (23)
- Basics of Fluid Construction Grammar (2017) (23)
- The Emergence of Embodied Communication in Artificial Agents and Humans (2008) (23)
- Building Social Media Observatories for Monitoring Online Opinion Dynamics (2020) (23)
- Social Tagging in Community Memories (2008) (22)
- Design Methods for Fluid Construction Grammar (2012) (22)
- The evolutionary dynamics of language (2017) (20)
- PLANNING WHAT TO SAY : Second Order Semantics for Fluid Construction Grammars (2005) (20)
- Scaffolding Language Emergence Using the Autotelic Principle (2007) (20)
- Language in the light of evolution (2014) (20)
- Accelerated Learning in Back-propagation Nets (1989) (19)
- Constraints on consultants. (1973) (19)
- Human language is a culturally evolving system (2017) (19)
- FAMOUS, faster: using parallel computing techniques to accelerate the FAMOUS/HadCM3 climate model with a focus on the radiative transfer algorithm (2011) (18)
- Modeling The Formation of Language in Embodied Agents: Methods and Open Challenges (2010) (18)
- Multi-level Selection in the Emergence of Language Systematicity (2007) (18)
- The Knowledge Level in Expert Systems: Conversations and Commentary (1994) (17)
- Fluid Construction Grammar: The New Kid on the Block (2012) (17)
- Programming with behavior-processes (2002) (17)
- How Experience of the Body Shapes Language about Space (2009) (16)
- Linguistic Selection of Language Strategies - A Case Study for Colour (2009) (16)
- Can Body Language Shape Body Image? (2008) (16)
- Emergent Frame Recognition and Its Use in Artificial Creatures (1991) (15)
- Interoperability Through Emergent Semantics A Semiotic Dynamics Approach (2006) (15)
- Social learning and verbal communication with humanoid robots (2001) (14)
- Multilevel Alignment Maintains Language systematicity (2012) (14)
- Social and Cultural Learning in the Evolution of Human Communication (2004) (14)
- Aspectual morphology of Russian verbs in fluid construction grammar (2009) (14)
- The architecture of flow (2004) (14)
- Typological and Computational Investigations of Spatial Perspective (2006) (14)
- The methodology of the artificial (2001) (13)
- Cognition and Social Dynamics Play a Major Role in the Formation of Grammar. (2009) (13)
- The Role of Construction Grammar in Fluid Language Grounding (2005) (13)
- Fluid Construction Grammar on Real Robots (2012) (13)
- Emergent mirror systems for body language (2012) (13)
- Semiotic Dynamics Solves the Symbol Grounding Problem (2007) (12)
- Foundation of CS-DC e-Laboratory: Open Systems Exploration for Ecosystems Leveraging (2017) (12)
- Babel - A Tool for Running Experiments on the Evolution of Language (2010) (12)
- Learning the Craft of Musical Composition (1986) (12)
- Discovering communication through ontogenetic ritualisation (2014) (11)
- Frame-Based Knowledge Representation (1978) (11)
- A Distributed Learning Algorithm for Communication Development (2003) (11)
- Information Technologies in Environmental Engineering (2009) (11)
- Structural coupling of cognitive memories through adaptive language games (1998) (11)
- The CommonKADS conceptual modelling language (1994) (10)
- Issues in the physical realisation of autonomous robotic agents (1996) (10)
- A Future for Knowledge Acquisition. Proceedings of the 8th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop EKAW'94 (1994) (10)
- Insight Grammar Learning (2016) (10)
- Modeling the Formation of Language: Embodied Experiments (2010) (9)
- Generation and Selection of Sensory Channels (1999) (9)
- Fluid construction grammar as a biological system (2016) (9)
- Self-interested agents can bootstrap symbolic communication if they punish cheaters (2008) (9)
- Ambiguity and the origins of syntax (2015) (8)
- Simulating the evolution of a grammar for case (2002) (8)
- The future of learning : issues and prospects (2003) (8)
- How to play the Syntax Game (2015) (8)
- The emergence of internal agreement systems (2012) (7)
- Interfaces for Community Memories (2008) (7)
- REPLICATOR DYNAMICS AND LANGUAGE PROCESSING (2008) (7)
- Net-mobile embodied agents (1999) (7)
- Mirror Neurons and the Action Theory of Language Origins. (2000) (7)
- Is sociality a crucial prerequisite for the emergence of language (2009) (7)
- The Homo Cyber Sapiens the Robot Homonidus Intelligens and the arti cial life approach to arti cial intelligence (1995) (6)
- The role of language in learning grounded representations (2001) (6)
- Design Requirements for Knowledge Representation Systems (1984) (6)
- Interactions between cultural, social and biological explanations for language evolution. (2012) (6)
- Community memories for sustainable societies (2007) (6)
- Personal dynamic memories are necessary to deal with meaning and understanding in human-centric AI (2020) (6)
- The origin of linguistic categories (1998) (5)
- What Needs to Be Done to Ensure the Ethical Use of AI? (2018) (5)
- LANGUAGE ORIGINATED IN SOCIAL BRAINS (2007) (5)
- Agroecology: A Fertile Field for Human Computation (2016) (5)
- Embodiment and self-organization of human categories : a case study for speech (2007) (5)
- Do languages evolve or merely change? (2017) (5)
- Path Finding with Nonlinear Waves (1991) (5)
- Artificial Life and Real World Computing (1995) (5)
- Meaning and Creativity in Language (2016) (5)
- A Vector Representation of Fluid Construction Grammar Using Holographic Reduced Representations (2015) (5)
- Research Commentaries on Cangelosi's "Solutions and Open Challenges for the Symbol Grounding Problem" (2011) (5)
- Iterated learning versus language games. Two models for cultural language evolution (2002) (5)
- INTRODUCING CONCEPTUAL GRAMMAR (1978) (5)
- How language bootstraps cognition (1999) (5)
- Some Examples of Conceptual Grammar (1978) (5)
- Fluid Construction Grammar for Historical and Evolutionary Linguistics (2013) (4)
- Chapter 7 Social Language Learning (4)
- Descriptions as Constraints in Object-Oriented Representation (1983) (4)
- Analogies between genome and language evolution (2004) (4)
- Perceiving the Focal Point of a Painting with AI: Case Studies on Works of Luc Tuymans (2020) (4)
- Usage-based Grammar Learning as Insight Problem Solving (2015) (4)
- ORBIT: a tool for building AI systems in an object-oriented style (1984) (4)
- ORBIT: An Applicative View of Object-Oriented Programming (1982) (4)
- The cultural evolution of syntactic constraints in phonology (2000) (3)
- The Frame Shift Mechanism in Natural Language (1978) (3)
- Towards a LISP standard (1986) (3)
- Strategies for the emergence of first-order constituent structure (2014) (3)
- Luc Steels , the Talking Heads Experiment and Cognitive Philosophy (2006) (3)
- Intelligent Workstation in the office: State of the art and future perspectives (1985) (3)
- Knowledge engineering in Esprit (1993) (3)
- Computational issues in fluid construction grammar : a new formalism for the representation of lexicons and grammars (2012) (3)
- On the formal properties of completion grammars and their related automata (1976) (3)
- The Emergence of Collective Structures Through Individual Interactions (2009) (3)
- Context-aware Resource Sharing for People-centric Sensing (2009) (3)
- Ontology-based knowledge acquisition (1994) (3)
- Cognitive Teleportation and Situated Embodiment (1999) (3)
- Emergence of Hierarchy in Fluid Construction Grammar (2005) (3)
- Equilibrium Analysis of Behavior Systems (1994) (3)
- Macro-operators for the Emergence of Construction Grammars. (2004) (3)
- Preface: Music Learning with Massive Open Online Courses (2015) (3)
- An architecture for evolving robust shared communication systems in noisy environments (1998) (3)
- The XPRT Description System (1979) (2)
- A Formalism for Case Systems (1976) (2)
- Does embodiment need to be pushed even further? Comment on "Embodied language, best fit analysis, and formal compositionality" by J. Feldman. (2010) (2)
- Explaining the origins of complexity in language: A case study for agreement systems (2011) (2)
- COMMET for building knowledge systems (1993) (2)
- Evolutionary Language Games as a Paradigm for Integrated AI Research (2012) (2)
- Producing natural language from semantic information (1976) (2)
- Requirements for Computational Construction Grammars (2017) (2)
- Completion grammars and their applications (1975) (2)
- Usage-based learning of grammatical categories (2022) (2)
- Synthetic modeling of cultural language evolution (2012) (2)
- Why We Need Evolutionary Semantics (2011) (2)
- The semiotic dynamics of colour: authors' response (2005) (2)
- Expert systems and beyond: community memories (1986) (2)
- Language as a Complex Adaptive System Language as a Complex Adaptive System (2002) (2)
- The Coming of MOOCs (2015) (2)
- Self-organizing communication in language games (2005) (2)
- Basics of Fluid Construction Grammar Paper under review for Constructions and Frames (2016) (1)
- An Experiment in Measuring Understanding (2022) (1)
- Complex systems approach to language games (2006) (1)
- Chapter 10 Fluid Construction Grammar on Real Robots (2012) (1)
- How to Explain the Origins of Complexity in Language: A Case Study for Agreement Systems (2017) (1)
- AI and Programming Languages (Invited Paper) (1986) (1)
- Proceedings of the 10th Annual International Conference on Digital Government Research, Partnerships for Public Innovation (2009) (1)
- A boy named Sue: The semiotic dynamics of naming and identity (2016) (1)
- I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this: Comment on "Towards a Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology: Framing the language-ready brain" by Michael A. Arbib. (2016) (1)
- Agents and Artificial Intelligence: 11th International Conference, ICAART 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, February 19–21, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (2019) (1)
- Proceedings of the 8th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop on A Future for Knowledge Acquisition (1994) (1)
- Blue Paper: A Research Roadmap for Developing Artificial Embodied and Communicating Agents (2007) (1)
- NAIVE BAYESIAN NETWORK FOR AUTOMATED, FASHION PERSONAL STYLIST (2020) (1)
- Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science): Preface (2004) (1)
- Social flow in social MOOCs (2015) (1)
- The Role of Construction Grammar in Language Grounding. (Submitted) (2006) (1)
- Parsing systems for regular and context-free languages (1975) (1)
- Breaking down false barriers to understanding (2014) (1)
- Systems Group (1973) (1)
- Philosophical and Conceptual Issues (2004) (1)
- the semiotic dynamics of colour (2005) (1)
- Modeling the Formation of Language in Embodied Agents: Conclusions and Future Research (2010) (1)
- Description types in the XPRT-system (1980) (1)
- On Plasticity, Complexity, and Sapient Systems (2008) (1)
- Collaborative Peer Assessment using PeerLearn (2015) (1)
- Adaptive Language Games with Robots (2010) (1)
- Spontaneous Lexicon Change (0)
- How can robots agree on what to say (2002) (0)
- Human language is a culturally evolving system (2016) (0)
- Does Complex Learning Require Complex Connectivity? (2006) (0)
- Reviewers of Volume 12 (2006) (0)
- Major Transitions in Artificial Evolution (2014) (0)
- Modeling The Formation of Language (2008) (0)
- Identifying centres of interest in paintings using alignment and edge detection: Case studies on works by Luc Tuymans (2021) (0)
- Scalable Natural Language Understanding Table of Contents Backbone Extraction and Pruning for Speeding up a Deep Parser for Dialogue Systems Increasing the Coverage of a Domain Independent Dialogue Lexicon with Verbnet Scaling Natural Language Understanding via User-driven Ontology Learning Catching (2006) (0)
- Darwin among Robots (2014) (0)
- Massive parallelism for artificial intelligence (extended abstract) (1987) (0)
- When Will Robots Talk like You and Me (2014) (0)
- Agent-based Models for Language Adaptation and Change (2018) (0)
- Construction grammar as a framework for historical linguistics (2014) (0)
- Can robots invent their own language (2014) (0)
- Symposium: The emergence of collective structure through individual interactions (2009) (0)
- How grammaticalization processes create grammar: From historical corpus data to agent-based models (2014) (0)
- Gallery structure formation in conleyborus scarabaeoides (2004) (0)
- AISB91 : proceedings of the eighth Conference of the Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, 16-19 April 1991, University of Leeds (1991) (0)
- Completion grammars and completion automata revisited (1977) (0)
- Biological Roots of the Social Brain (2008) (0)
- Introducing Conceptual Grammar Luc Steels (2008) (0)
- Matthew Barney : Drawing Restraint : Vol. II, 2005 (2005) (0)
- Digging for the Roots of Understanding (2014) (0)
- Compositionality in Horizontal Transmission (2019) (0)
- The FORLI.OLB package for list processing in fortran IV (1976) (0)
- Selected and updated papers from the proceedings of the 1982 European conference on Progress in artificial intelligence (1985) (0)
- Luc Steels Language Re-Entrance (2003) (0)
- A Bibliography of Publications of Luc Steels (2013) (0)
- The Social Learning of Word Meaning (2002) (0)
- Powerful semantics can make language processing more robust (2011) (0)
- Creativity and Problem Solving (2015) (0)
- Eecient Behavioral Processes (2008) (0)
- Kmowdedge emgheerhg (2004) (0)
- Embodied Artificial Intelligence (Dagstuhl Seminar 03281) (2021) (0)
- How language emerges in situated embodied interactions (2013) (0)
- 12-de Vega-Chap12 (2009) (0)
- Is symbolic inheritance similar to genetic inheritance? (2007) (0)
- Spatial reference in the Semantic Web and in Robotics (Dagstuhl Seminar 14142) (2014) (0)
- Editorial: AI and Europe (1988) (0)
- Empathy and Singularity (2014) (0)
- Can agent-based language evolution contribute to archeology? (2009) (0)
- Statistical Physics of Language Evolution (2014) (0)
- Chapter 16 Modeling the Formation of Language in Embodied Agents : Conclusions and Future Research (0)
- Praise or flow? two pedagogies for open-ended learning (2015) (0)
- Music surround sound effect system and method (1998) (0)
- The emergence of embodied communication in artificial (2008) (0)
- Artificial intelligence—balancing euphoria with reality (1986) (0)
- Embodied Artificial Intelligence - Preamble (2016) (0)
- Advances in artificial intelligence II : Seventh European Conference on Artificial Intelligence, ECAI-86, Brighton, U.K., July 20-25, 1986 (1987) (0)
- FCG as a biological system (2015) (0)
- Chapter 4. Social Flow in Social MOOCs (2015) (0)
- ICT-Art Connect (2014) (0)
- IMPLAUSIBLY COOPERATIVE ROBOTS MEET THEIR SELFISH GENE COUNTERPARTS (2010) (0)
- Cliff, D. (2019). Exhaustive Testing of Trader-agents in Realistically Dynamic Continuous Double Auction Markets: AA Does Not Dominate. In (2018) (0)
- [McDermott, 1988] J. McDermott. Preliminary steps towards a taxonomy of problemsolving methods. In S. Marcus, editor, (2007) (0)
- Approaches to the verb phrase in Fluid Construction Grammar (2019) (0)
- General Properties of Natural Language Processing_ Systems (0)
- A Future for Knowledge Acquisition: 8th European Knowledge Acquisition Workshop, Ekaw '94, Hoegaarden, Belgium, September 26-29, 1994 : Proceedings (1994) (0)
- Chapter 8 Open-ended Procedural Semantics (2012) (0)
- Recent breakthroughs in language evolution research (2014) (0)
- Computational Construction Grammar Workshop (2014) (0)
- Comment on "Modeling The Cultural Evolution of Language" by (2011) (0)
- Chapter 1 Grounding Language through Evolutionary Language Games (2012) (0)
- Frame-based Knowledge Representation Luc Steels M@bullets# Ettrm S Istitute of Technology 1971 (2008) (0)
- How Robots May Evolve Their Own Language (2007) (0)
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