Modeling Language Evolution with Computational Construction Grammar

In this section you can find an annotated list of publications that we advise the participants to read before the start of the atelier.

Luc Steels. Evolving grounded communication for robots. Trends in Cognitive Science. 7(7), July 2003, pp. 308--312.

A good introductory paper on modeling language evolution.
Laura Michaelis (in press). Construction Grammar. In: K. Brown (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd edition, Oxford: Elsevier.

A good introductory paper on Construction Grammar theories.
Steels, Luc and Joachim De Beule (2006). A (very) brief introduction to Fluid Construction Grammar. In: Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding (ScaNaLu), June 8, New York City. ACL Conference: New York.

An introductory paper on the computational grammar formalism that will be taught and used at the atelier.
Peter Seibel. Practical Common Lisp. Berkely: Apress.

Best-selling Lisp book of today and available for free online. Gives a good impression of the power of Common Lisp and is a fun read. We suggest that you take an extra good look at the two chapters on CLOS, which will be used a lot in the framework that is offered by the atelier.
Gerard Weber. ELM-ART. An Interactive Online Lisp Tutorial.

This free online and interactive Lisp Tutorial is a must for everyone who is new to Common Lisp. It gets you familiar with Lisp's data types and notation.