Senior Research Fellowship: Human-like communication in autonomous agents - 1st term

Achieving a mechanistic understanding of the emergence, evolution, acquisition and processing of human-like languages in populations of autonomous agents. Unravelling and computationally modelling the mechanisms underlying these processes will not only contribute to a better understanding of how human languages function, but will also make it possible to equip truly intelligent agents with the necessary means to co-construct conceptual and linguistic structures that are adequate for interacting with humans and each other in their native environment. The proposed research is fundamental, yet applicable in nature.