Simon Kirby - RankMe

76 papers A* 3B 39Journal 27Unranked 7

Year	Rank	Type	Title / Venue / Authors
2025	B	`conf`	Efficient communication drives the semantic structure of kinship terminology. CogSci Maisy Hallam, Simon Kirby, Fiona Jordan, Kenny Smith
2025	B	`conf`	Iterated language learning is shaped by a drive for optimizing lossy compression. CogSci Nathaniel Imel, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby, Noga Zaslavsky
2025	B	`conf`	No directional preference for grammaticalization in semantic extension game. CogSci Anna Kapron-King, Simon Kirby, Graeme Trousdale, Kenny Smith
2025	B	`conf`	Segmentation can drive the cultural evolution of the statistical properties of language. CogSci Lucie Wolters, Inbal Arnon, Simon Kirby
2025	J	`jnl`	With or Without a System: How Category-Specific and System-Wide Cognitive Biases Shape Word Order. Cogn. Sci. Annie Holtz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
2024	B	`conf`	Communication and learning pressures result in clustered lexicons. CogSci Aislinn Keogh, Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby
2024	B	`conf`	Emblems and Improvised Gestures are Structured to Guide their Own Detection. CogSci Amanda L. Royka, Gwyneth Heuser, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby, Julian Jara-Ettinger
2024	J	`jnl`	Evaluating the Relative Importance of Wordhood Cues Using Statistical Learning. Cogn. Sci. Elizabeth Pankratz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
2024	J	`jnl`	Predictability and Variation in Language Are Differentially Affected by Learning and Production. Cogn. Sci. Aislinn Keogh, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
2024	B	`conf`	Systemic structure of kinship is shaped by evolutionary processes. CogSci Maisy Hallam, Fiona Jordan, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2024	B	`conf`	The key property of frequency distributions that facilitates linguistic rule generalisation is long-tailedness. CogSci Elizabeth Pankratz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
2023	B	`conf`	Cognitive biases for word order between numeral, classifier and noun. CogSci Fang Wang, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
2023	J	`jnl`	Documenting a Reduction in Signing Space in Nicaraguan Sign Language Using Depth and Motion Capture. Cogn. Sci. Molly Flaherty, Asha Sato, Simon Kirby
2023	B	`conf`	Does production facilitate learning morphosyntactic generalisations? CogSci Aislinn Keogh, Elizabeth Pankratz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
2023	B	`conf`	Simplicity and Informativeness in the Evolution of Combinatorial Structure. CogSci Matthias Hofer, Simon Kirby, Roger Levy
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`	Regularization of Word Order in the Verb Phrase differs from the Noun Phrase: Evidence from an online silent gesture perception paradigm. CogSci Monica Lynn Do, Simon Kirby, Susan Goldin-Meadow
2022	B	`conf`	Syntactic harmony arises from a domain-general learning bias. CogSci Jennifer Culbertson, Simon Kirby
2022	J	`jnl`	The Effects of Iconicity and Conventionalization on Word Order Preferences. Cogn. Sci. Yasamin Motamedi, Lucie Wolters, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby
2022	B	`conf`	The Influence of Category-specific and System-wide Preferences on Cross-Linguistic Word Order Patterns. CogSci Annie Holtz, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
2021	B	`conf`	A Cognitive Bias for Cross-Category Word Order Harmony. CogSci Fang Wang, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
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	B	`conf`	I Know You Know I'm Signaling: Novel gestures are designed to guide observers' inferences about communicative goals. CogSci Amanda L. Royka, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby, Julian Jara-Ettinger
2021	B	`conf`	Regularisation, Systematicity and Naturalness in a Silent Gesture Learning Task. CogSci Yasamin Motamedi, Lucie Wolters, Danielle Naegeli, Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby
2020	J	`jnl`	Communicative need modulates competition in language change. CoRR Andres Karjus, Richard A. Blythe, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2020	J	`jnl`	Compositional Languages Emerge in a Neural Iterated Learning Model. CoRR Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Matthieu Labeau, Shay B. Cohen, Simon Kirby
2020	A*	`conf`	Compositional languages emerge in a neural iterated learning model. ICLR Yi Ren, Shangmin Guo, Matthieu Labeau, Shay B. Cohen, Simon Kirby
2020	B	`conf`	Simple kinship systems are more learnable. CogSci Kenny Smith, Stella Frank, Sara Rolando, Simon Kirby, Jia E. Loy
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`	Learning and Production in the Explanation of Regularization Behaviour: a Computational Model. CogSci Chiara Semenzin, Vanessa Ferdinand, Simon Kirby
2018	J	`jnl`	A Social Approach to Rule Dynamics Using an Agent-Based Model. Top. Cogn. Sci. Christine F. Cuskley, Vittorio Loreto, Simon Kirby
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	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	B	`conf`	Silent gesture and noun phrase universals. CogSci Marieke Schouwstra, Simon Kirby, Jennifer Culbertson
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
2016	B	`conf`	Cultural Evolution Across Domains: Language, Technology and Art. CogSci Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby, John W. Carr
2016	J	`jnl`	Iconicity and the Emergence of Combinatorial Structure in Language. Cogn. Sci. Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Bart de Boer
2016	B	`conf`	Modelling the co-development of word learning and perspective-taking. CogSci Marieke Woensdregt, Simon Kirby, Chris Cummins, Kenny Smith
2015	J	`jnl`	Culture: Copying, Compression, and Conventionality. Cogn. Sci. Monica Tamariz, Simon Kirby
2015	J	`jnl`	Word Meanings Evolve to Selectively Preserve Distinctions on Salient Dimensions. Cogn. Sci. Catriona Silvey, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2014	J	`jnl`	Emergence of combinatorial structure and economy through iterated learning with continuous acoustic signals. J. Phonetics Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Bart de Boer
2014	—	`conf`	Experimental study on the influence of controller firmware on multirotor actuator dynamics. ROSE Oyvind Magnussen, Geir Hovland, Morten Ottestad, Simon Kirby
2014	B	`conf`	Social influences on the regularization of unpredictable linguistic variation. CogSci Olga Feher, Simon Kirby, Kenny Smith
2013	B	`conf`	A robustness approach to theory building: A case study of language evolution. CogSci Liz Irvine, Sean Roberts, Simon Kirby
2013	B	`conf`	Combinatorial structure and iconicity in artificial whistled languages. CogSci Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Bart de Boer
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	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	B	`conf`	Cultural emergence of combinatorial structure in an artificial whistled language. CogSci Tessa Verhoef, Simon Kirby, Carol Padden
2011	B	`conf`	Integrating the Horizontal and Vertical Cultural Transmission of Novel Communication Systems. CogSci Carrie Theisen-White, Simon Kirby, Jon Oberlander
2006	—	`conf`	Evolving Distributed Representations for Language with Self-Organizing Maps. EELC Simon D. Levy, Simon Kirby
2006	A*	`conf`	Measuring Language Divergence by Intra-Lexical Comparison. ACL T. Mark Ellison, Simon Kirby
2006	J	`jnl`	Understanding Linguistic Evolution by Visualizing the Emergence of Topographic Mappings. Artif. Life Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby
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
2002	J	`jnl`	Natural Language From Artificial Life. Artif. Life Simon Kirby
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 View From Elsewhere: Perspectives on ALife Modeling. Artif. Life Michael Wheeler, Seth Bullock, Ezequiel A. Di Paolo, Jason Noble, Mark A. Bedau, Philip Husbands, Simon Kirby, Anil K. Seth
2001	—	`conf`	Filled pauses and their status in the mental lexicon. DiSS Richard Shillcock, Simon Kirby, Scott McDonald, Chris Brew
2001	—	`conf`	I Like What I Know: How Recognition-Based Decisions Can Structure the Environment. ECAL Peter M. Todd, Simon Kirby
2001	J	`jnl`	Spontaneous evolution of linguistic structure-an iterated learning model of the emergence of regularity and irregularity. IEEE Trans. Evol. Comput. Simon Kirby
2001	—	`conf`	The Survival of the Smallest: Stability Conditions for the Cultural Evolution of Compositional Language. ECAL Henry Brighton, Simon Kirby
1999	—	`conf`	Syntax out of Learning: The Cultural Evolution of Structured Communication in a Population of Induction Algorithms. ECAL Simon Kirby