Symbol Grounding and Beyond [electronic resource] : Third International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, EELC 2006, Rome, Italy, September 30 – October 1, 2006. Proceedings / edited by Paul Vogt, Yuuya Sugita, Elio Tuci, Chrystopher Nehaniv.

A Hybrid Model for Learning Word-Meaning Mappings -- Cooperation, Conceptual Spaces and the Evolution of Semantics -- Cross-Situational Learning: A Mathematical Approach -- Dialog Strategy Acquisition and Its Evaluation for Efficient Learning of Word Meanings by Agents -- Evolving Distributed Representations for Language with Self-Organizing Maps -- How Do Children Develop Syntactic Representations from What They Hear? -- How Grammar Emerges to Dampen Combinatorial Search in Parsing -- Implementation of Biases Observed in Children’s Language Development into Agents -- Lexicon Convergence in a Population With and Without Metacommunication -- Operational Aspects of the Evolved Signalling Behaviour in a Group of Cooperating and Communicating Robots -- Propositional Logic Syntax Acquisition -- Robots That Learn Language: Developmental Approach to Human-Machine Conversations -- Simulating Meaning Negotiation Using Observational Language Games -- Symbol Grounding Through Cumulative Learning -- The Human Speechome Project -- Unify and Merge in Fluid Construction Grammar -- Utility for Communicability by Profit and Cost of Agreement.