Kenny Smith - RankMe

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Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2026	J	`jnl`	Evaluating the relationship between regularity and learnability in recursive numeral systems using Reinforcement Learning. CoRR Andrea Silvi, Ponrawee Prasertsom, Jennifer Culbertson, Devdatt P. Dubhashi, Moa Johansson, Kenny Smith
2026	—	`conf`	Recursive numeral systems are highly regular and easy to process. EACL (Volume 1: Long Papers) Ponrawee Prasertsom, Andrea Silvi, Jennifer Culbertson, Devdatt P. Dubhashi, Moa Johansson, Kenny Smith
2025	B	`conf`	Beyond Crosslinguistic Influence: Mandarin Speakers with Exposure to Null-subject Languages Nonetheless Use Fewer Null Pronouns in Mandarin. CogSci Yajun Liu, Antonella Sorace, Kenny Smith
2025	B	`conf`	Do bilinguals avoid ambiguity? An experimental study of lexical ambiguity in spoken Mandarin. CogSci Yajun Liu, Antonella Sorace, Kenny Smith
2025	B	`conf`	Efficient communication drives the semantic structure of kinship terminology. CogSci Maisy Hallam, Simon Kirby, Fiona Jordan, Kenny Smith
2025	B	`conf`	No directional preference for grammaticalization in semantic extension game. CogSci Anna Kapron-King, Simon Kirby, Graeme Trousdale, Kenny Smith
2025	J	`jnl`	Recursive numeral systems are highly regular and easy to process. CoRR Ponrawee Prasertsom, Andrea Silvi, Jennifer Culbertson, Moa Johansson, Devdatt P. Dubhashi, Kenny Smith
2025	B	`conf`	Testing counterintuitive predictions about cost-based inferences in learning from the Rational Speech Act model. CogSci Ponrawee Prasertsom, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson
2025	B	`conf`	The Impact of Similar Place Avoidance on Novel Word Learning in Adults. CogSci Annie Holtz, Kenny Smith, Mitsuhiko Ota
2025	B	`conf`	The learnability of sign language morphology: an experimental study. CogSci Katie Mudd, Neil Fox, Kenny Smith, Adam Schembri
2024	B	`conf`	Agreement marking can benefit child learners. CogSci Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson
2024	B	`conf`	Coordination, rather than pragmatics, shapes colexification when the pressure for efficiency is low. CogSci Alexey Koshevoy, Isabelle Dautriche, Olivier Morin, Kenny Smith
2024	B	`conf`	Domain-general categorisation principles explain the prevalence of animacy and absence of colour in noun classification systems. CogSci Ponrawee Prasertsom, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson
2024	B	`conf`	Representations as Language: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Interpretability. CogSci Henry Conklin, Kenny Smith
2024	J	`jnl`	Representations as Language: An Information-Theoretic Framework for Interpretability. CoRR Henry Conklin, Kenny Smith
2024	J	`jnl`	Sample Relationship from Learning Dynamics Matters for Generalisation. CoRR Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith
2024	B	`conf`	Simplifications made early in learning can reshape language complexity: an experimental test of the Linguistic Niche Hypothesis. CogSci Kenny Smith
2024	B	`conf`	Systemic structure of kinship is shaped by evolutionary processes. CogSci Maisy Hallam, Fiona Jordan, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2024	B	`conf`	Testing the Effects of the Implicative Structure and Noun Class Size on the Learnability of Inflectional Paradigms in Adults and Artificial Neural Networks. CogSci Tamar Johnson, Micha Elsner, Kenny Smith
2024	B	`conf`	Variability in communication contexts determines the convexity of semantic category systems emerging in neural networks. CogSci Vlad C. Nedelcu, Daniel Lassiter, Kenny Smith
2024	A*	`conf`	lpNTK: Better Generalisation with Less Data via Sample Interaction During Learning. ICLR Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith
2023	B	`conf`	Communicative efficiency is present in young children and becomes more adult-like with age. CogSci Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Inbal Arnon, Jennifer Culbertson
2023	A*	`conf`	Compositionality with Variation Reliably Emerges in Neural Networks. ICLR Henry Conklin, Kenny Smith
2023	B	`conf`	Degree of heterogeneity in the contexts of language users mediates the cognitive-communicative trade-off in semantic categorization. CogSci Vlad C. Nedelcu, Kenny Smith, Daniel Lassiter
2023	J	`jnl`	Reliable identification of selection mechanisms in language change. CoRR Juan Guerrero Montero, Andres Karjus, Kenny Smith, Richard A. Blythe
2023	B	`conf`	The Relationship Between Frequency and Irregularity in the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Experimental Study. CogSci Kenny Smith, Clem Ashton, Helen Sims-Williams
2022	B	`conf`	Agreement can facilitate learning of noun class systems. CogSci Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson
2022	B	`conf`	An experimental study of semantic extension in a novel communication system. CogSci Josephine Bowerman, Kenny Smith
2022	A*	`conf`	Expressivity of Emergent Languages is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability. ICLR Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory Wallace Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith
2022	B	`conf`	Intertwining Generalization and Memorization. CogSci Henry Coxe-Conklin, Kenny Smith
2022	J	`jnl`	The Impact of Information Structure on the Emergence of Differential Object Marking: An Experimental Study. Cogn. Sci. Shira Tal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Eitan Grossman, Inbal Arnon
2022	B	`conf`	The complexity of a language is shaped by the communicative needs of its users and by the hierarchical nature of their social inferences. CogSci Vlad C. Nedelcu, Kenny Smith
2021	J	`jnl`	Conceptual Similarity and Communicative Need Shape Colexification: An Experimental Study. Cogn. Sci. Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang, Kenny Smith
2021	J	`jnl`	Conceptual similarity and communicative need shape colexification: an experimental study. CoRR Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Tianyu Wang, Kenny Smith
2021	J	`jnl`	Expressivity of Emergent Language is a Trade-off between Contextual Complexity and Unpredictability. CoRR Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Kory W. Mathewson, Simon Kirby, Stefano V. Albrecht, Kenny Smith
2021	J	`jnl`	From partners to populations: A hierarchical Bayesian account of coordination and convention. CoRR Robert X. D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Michael C. Frank, Kenny Smith, Thomas L. Griffiths, Noah D. Goodman
2021	J	`jnl`	Investigating the effects of i-complexity and e-complexity on the learnability of morphological systems. J. Lang. Model. Tamar Johnson, Kexin Gao, Kenny Smith, Hugh Rabagliati, Jennifer Culbertson
2021	—	`conf`	Meta-Learning to Compositionally Generalize. ACL/IJCNLP (1) Henry Conklin, Bailin Wang, Kenny Smith, Ivan Titov
2021	J	`jnl`	Meta-Learning to Compositionally Generalize. CoRR Henry Conklin, Bailin Wang, Kenny Smith, Ivan Titov
2021	J	`jnl`	Speakers Align With Their Partner's Overspecification During Interaction. Cogn. Sci. Jia E. Loy, Kenny Smith
2020	B	`conf`	Are you thinking what I'm thinking? Perspective-taking in a language game. CogSci Johanne Nedergaard, Kenny Smith
2020	J	`jnl`	Communicative need modulates competition in language change. CoRR Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2020	J	`jnl`	How Culture and Biology Interact to Shape Language and the Language Faculty. Top. Cogn. Sci. Kenny Smith
2020	B	`conf`	Influence of partner behaviour on overspecification. CogSci Jia E. Loy, Kenny Smith
2020	B	`conf`	Learner dynamics in a model of wug inflection: integrating frequency and phonology. CogSci Stella Frank, Kenny Smith, Christine F. Cuskley
2020	B	`conf`	Modelling the Emergence of Positional Compositional Structure. CogSci Henry Coxe-Conklin, Stella Frank, Robert Truswell, Kenny Smith
2020	J	`jnl`	Non-adjacent Dependency Learning in Humans and Other Animals . Top. Cogn. Sci. Benjamin Wilson, Michelle Spierings, Andrea Ravignani, Jutta L. Mueller, Toben H. Mintz, Frank Wijnen, Anne van der Kant, Kenny Smith, Arnaud Rey
2020	B	`conf`	Rational After All: Changes in Probability Matching Behaviour Across Time in Humans and Monkeys. CogSci Carmen Saldana, Nicolas Claidière, Joël Fagot, Kenny Smith
2020	B	`conf`	Simple kinship systems are more learnable. CogSci Kenny Smith, Stella Frank, Sara Rolando, Simon Kirby, Jia E. Loy
2019	B	`conf`	Acquiring Agglutinating and Fusional Languages Can Be Similarly Difficult: Evidence from an Adaptive Tracking Study. CogSci Svenja Wagner, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson
2019	B	`conf`	Assessing Integrative Complexity as a Measure of Morphological Learning. CogSci Tamar Johnson, Jennifer Culbertson, Hugh Rabagliati, Kenny Smith
2019	B	`conf`	Cumulative cultural evolution in a non-copying task in children and Guinea baboons. CogSci Carmen Saldana, Joël Fagot, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith, Nicolas Claidière
2019	B	`conf`	Experimental conditions affect how social cues guide the regularisation of unpredictable variation. CogSci Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2019	B	`conf`	From wugged to wug: Reverse generalisation of stems from novel past tense verbs. CogSci Christine F. Cuskley, Stella Frank, Kenny Smith
2019	J	`jnl`	Interaction Promotes the Adaptation of Referential Conventions to the Communicative Context. Cogn. Sci. Lucía Castillo, Kenny Smith, Holly P. Branigan
2019	B	`conf`	Language stability and change in age-dependent networks. CogSci Stella Frank, Kenny Smith
2019	J	`jnl`	The Emergence of Compositional Languages for Numeric Concepts Through Iterated Learning in Neural Agents. CoRR Shangmin Guo, Yi Ren, Serhii Havrylov, Stella Frank, Ivan Titov, Kenny Smith
2018	B	`conf`	A model of linguistic accommodation leading to language simplification. CogSci Stella Frank, Kenny Smith
2018	J	`jnl`	Adult Learning and Language Simplification. Cogn. Sci. Mark Atkinson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby
2018	J	`jnl`	Challenges in detecting evolutionary forces in language change using diachronic corpora. CoRR Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2018	B	`conf`	Do children privilege phonological cues in noun class learning? CogSci Jennifer Culbertson, Hanna Jarvinen, Frances Haggarty, Kenny Smith
2018	B	`conf`	Emerging abstractions: Lexical conventions are shaped by communicative context. CogSci Robert X. D. Hawkins, Michael Franke, Kenny Smith, Noah D. Goodman
2018	J	`jnl`	Quantifying the dynamics of topical fluctuations in language. CoRR Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2017	B	`conf`	A model of cultural co-evolution of language and mindreading. CogSci Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith
2017	B	`conf`	Iconicity vs. Systematicity in Artificial Language Learning. CogSci Alan Ks Nielsen, Julia Simner, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2017	B	`conf`	Is the strength of regularisation behaviour uniform across linguistic levels? CogSci Carmen Saldana, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
2017	B	`conf`	Language-users choose short words in predictive contexts in an artificial language task. CogSci Jasmeen Kanwal, Kenny Smith, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby
2017	J	`jnl`	Minimal Requirements for the Emergence of Learned Signaling. Cogn. Sci. Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2017	J	`jnl`	The Cultural Evolution of Structured Languages in an Open-Ended, Continuous World. Cogn. Sci. John W. Carr, Kenny Smith, Hannah Cornish, Simon Kirby
2017	J	`jnl`	The cognitive roots of regularization in language. CoRR Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2017	B	`conf`	The cultural evolution of complex linguistic constructions in artificial sign languages. CogSci Yasamin Motamedi, Marieke Schouwstra, Jennifer Culbertson, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby
2017	B	`conf`	The differential effects of transmission and interaction on linguistic variation. CogSci Olga Feher, Kenny Smith
2017	B	`conf`	The dot perspective task revisited: Evidence for directional effects. CogSci Cathleen O'Grady, Thom Scott-Phillips, Suilin Lavelle, Kenny Smith
2017	B	`conf`	The influence of word-order harmony on structural priming in artificial languages. CogSci Kenny Smith, Olga Feher, Jennifer Culbertson
2016	B	`conf`	Modelling the co-development of word learning and perspective-taking. CogSci Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith
2016	B	`conf`	The Emergence of Conventions. CogSci Robert X. D. Hawkins, Noah D. Goodman, Olga Feher, Kenny Smith, Robert L. Goldstone, Tom Griffiths
2016	B	`conf`	The cultural evolution of cognition. CogSci Sieghard Beller, Andrea Bender, Christine A. Caldwell, Morten H. Christiansen, Karenleigh A. Overmann, Kenny Smith
2015	J	`jnl`	Word Meanings Evolve to Selectively Preserve Distinctions on Salient Dimensions. Cogn. Sci. Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2014	B	`conf`	Eliminating unpredictable linguistic variation through interaction. CogSci Kenny Smith, Olga Feher, Nikolaus Ritt
2014	B	`conf`	Social influences on the regularization of unpredictable linguistic variation. CogSci Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2014	J	`jnl`	Word learning under infinite uncertainty. CoRR Richard A. Blythe, Andrew D. M. Smith, Kenny Smith
2013	B	`conf`	Communication Leads to the Emergence of Sub-optimal Category Structures. CogSci Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2013	B	`conf`	Learning, Feedback and Information in Self-Organizing Communication Systems. CogSci Matthew Spike, Kevin Stadler, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2013	B	`conf`	Linguistic structure is an evolutionary trade-off between simplicity and expressivity. CogSci Kenny Smith, Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby
2013	B	`conf`	Regularization behavior in a non-linguistic domain. CogSci Vanessa Ferdinand, Bill Thompson, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2013	J	`jnl`	Statistical mechanics of lexicon learning in an uncertain and nonuniform world CoRR Rainer Reisenauer, Kenny Smith, Richard A. Blythe
2013	B	`conf`	Systems from Sequences: an Iterated Learning Account of the Emergence of Systematic Structure in a Non-Linguistic Task. CogSci Hannah Cornish, Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby
2011	J	`jnl`	Cross-Situational Learning: An Experimental Study of Word-Learning Mechanisms. Cogn. Sci. Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith, Richard A. Blythe
2010	J	`jnl`	Learning Times for Large Lexicons Through Cross-Situational Learning. Cogn. Sci. Richard A. Blythe, Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith
2006	—	`conf`	Cross-Situational Learning: A Mathematical Approach. EELC Kenny Smith, Andrew D. M. Smith, Richard A. Blythe, Paul Vogt
2003	J	`jnl`	Complex Systems in Language Evolution: the Cultural Emergence of Compositional Structure. Adv. Complex Syst. Kenny Smith, Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby
2003	J	`jnl`	Iterated Learning: A Framework for the Emergence of Language. Artif. Life Kenny Smith, Simon Kirby, Henry Brighton
2003	—	`conf`	Language Evolution in Populations: Extending the Iterated Learning Model. ECAL Kenny Smith, James R. Hurford
2003	—	`conf`	Learning Biases for the Evolution of Linguistic Structure: An Associative Network Model. ECAL Kenny Smith
2002	J	`jnl`	Natural Selection and Cultural Selection in the Evolution of Communication. Adapt. Behav. Kenny Smith
2002	—	`conf`	Situated Cognition and the Role of Multi-agent Models in Explaining Language Structure. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agents Systems Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2002	J	`jnl`	The cultural evolution of communication in a population of neural networks. Connect. Sci. Kenny Smith
2001	—	`conf`	The Importance of Rapid Cultural Convergence in the Evolution of Learned Symbolic Communication. ECAL Kenny Smith
2000	J	`jnl`	Developing MFC application NAVAJO Word Processor Version 2.0. J. Comput. Sci. Coll. Scott Hall, Stephen James, Alesha Platero, Jim Reihsen, Gary Ross, Kenny Smith, Matt Yazzie, Stephanie Wimbish, Tim Reeves