Michael Spranger

Associate Researcher

Language group

Publications

Spranger, M. Potential Stages in the Cultural Evolution of Spatial Language. The Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 9), 2012. accepted  

Steels, L., Spranger, M., van Trijp, R., Höfer, S. and Hild, M. Emergent Action Language on Real Robots. In Steels, L. and Hild, M., editor, Language Grounding in Robots, pages 255-276, Springer. New York, 2012.  

Steels, L. and Spranger, M. Emergent Mirror Systems for Body Language. In Steels, L., editor, Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, Advances in Interaction Studies (vol. 3), pages 87-109, John Benjamins. Amsterdam, 2012.  

Spranger, M. and Steels, L. Emergent Functional Grammar for Space. In Steels, L., editor, Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, Advances in Interaction Studies (vol. 3), pages 207-232, John Benjamins. Amsterdam, 2012.  

Spranger, M. The Co-Evolution of Basic Spatial Terms and Categories. In Steels, L., editor, Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, Advances in Interaction Studies (vol. 3), pages 111-141, John Benjamins. Amsterdam, 2012.  

Gerasymova, K., Spranger, M. and Beuls, K. A Language Strategy for Aspect: Encoding Aktionsarten through Morphology. In Steels, L., editor, Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution, Advances in Interaction Studies (vol. 3), pages 257-276, John Benjamins. Amsterdam, 2012.  

Spranger, M. and Pauw, S. Dealing with Perceptual Deviation - Vague Semantics for Spatial Language and Quantification. In Steels, L. and Hild, M., editor, Language Grounding in Robots, pages 173-192, Springer. New York, 2012.  

Spranger, M., Loetzsch, M. and Steels, L. A Perceptual System for Language Game Experiments. In Steels, L. and Hild, M., editor, Language Grounding in Robots, pages 89-110, Springer. 2012.  

Hoefer, S., Spranger, M. and Hild, M. Posture Recognition Based on Slow Feature Analysis. In Steels, L. and Hild, M., editor, Language Grounding in Robots, pages 111-130, Springer. New York, 2012.  

Spranger, M., Pauw, S., Loetzsch, M. and Steels, L. Open-ended Procedural Semantics. In Steels, L. and Hild, M., editor, Language Grounding in Robots, pages 153-172, Springer. New York, 2012.  

Hild, M., Siedel, T., Benckendorff, C., Thiele, C. and Spranger, M. Myon, a New Humanoid. In Steels, L. and Hild, M., editor, Language Grounding in Robots, pages 25-44, Springer. New York, 2012.  

Spranger, M. and Steels, L. Synthetic Modeling of Cultural Language Evolution. In McCrohon, L. and Fujimura, T. and Fujita, K. and Martin, R. and Okanoya, K. and Suzuki, R. and Yusa, N., editor, Five Approaches to Language Evolution, pages 130-139, Tokyo, 2012. Evolang9 Organization Committee.  

Gerasymova, K. and Spranger, M. An Experiment in Temporal Language Learning. In Steels, L. and Hild, M., editor, Language Grounding in Robots, pages 237-254, Springer. New York, 2012.  

Pauw, S. and Spranger, M. Embodied Quantifiers. In Slavkovik, M. and Lassiter, D., editor, New Directions in Logic, Language, and Computation, Springer. 2012.

Spranger, M. Recruitment, Selection and Alignment of Spatial Language Strategies. In Lenaerts, T. and Giacobini, M. and Bersini, H. and Bourgine, P. and Dorigo, M. and Doursat, R., editor, Advances in Artificial Life, ECAL 2011, pages 771-778, MIT Press. 2011.  

Spranger, M. The Evolution of Grounded Spatial Language. Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB), Brussels, Belgium, 2011.

Spranger, M. and Loetzsch, M. Syntactic indeterminacy and semantic ambiguity - A case study for German spatial phrases. In Steels, L., editor, Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar, Constructional Approaches to Language (vol. 11), pages 265-298, John Benjamins. Amsterdam, 2011.  

Spranger, M., Thiele, C. and Hild, M. Integrating high level cognitive systems with sensorimotor control. Advanced Engineering Informatics, 24(1):76-83 January 2010.

Spranger, M., Pauw, S. and Loetzsch, M. Open-ended semantics co-evolving with spatial language. In Smith, A.D.M. and Schouwstra, M. and de Boer, B. and Smith, K., editor, The Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 8), pages 297-304, Singapore, 2010. World Scientific.  

Spranger, M., Loetzsch, M. and Pauw, S. Open-ended Grounded Semantics. In Coelho, H. and Studer, R. and Woolridge, M., editor, Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2010), pages 929-934, 2010. IOS Press.  

M. Loetzsch and M. Spranger Why robots?. In Smith, A.D.M. and Schouwstra, M. and de Boer, B. and Smith, K., editor, The Evolution of Language (EVOLANG 8), pages 222-229, Singapore, 2010. World Scientific.  

Gerasymova, K. and Spranger, M. Acquisition of Grammar in Autonomous Artificial Systems. In Coelho, M. and Studer, R. and Woolridge, M., editor, Proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2010), pages 923-928, 2010. IOS Press.  

Pauw, S. and Spranger, M. Embodied determiners. In Slavkovik, M., editor, Proceedings of the 15th Student Session of the European Summer School for Logic, Language and Information (ESSLI 2010), pages 184-192, 2010.  

Bleys, J., Loetzsch, M., Spranger, M. and Steels, L. The Grounded Color Naming Game. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-man 2009), 2009.  

Spranger, M. and Loetzsch, M. The Semantics of SIT, STAND, and LIE Embodied in Robots. In Taatgen, N.A. and van Rijn, H., editor, Proceedings of the 31th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci09), pages 2546-2552, Austin, TX, 2009. Cognitive Science Society  

Spranger, M., Hoefer, S. and Hild, M. Biologically Inspired Posture Recognition and Posture Change Detection for Humanoid Robots. Proceedings of ROBIO’09: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics., pages 562-567, 2009. IEEE  

Steels, L. and Spranger, M. How Experience of the Body Shapes Language about Space. IJCAI'09: Proceedings of the 21st international joint conference on Artifical intelligence, pages 14-19, San Francisco, 2009. Morgan Kaufmann.  

Steels, L. and Spranger, M. Can Body Language Shape Body Image?. In Bullock, S. and Noble, J. and Watson, R. and Bedau, M. A., editor, Artificial Life XI: Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on the Simulation and Synthesis of Living Systems, pages 577-584, Cambridge, MA, 2008. MIT Press.  

Steels, L. and Spranger, M. The Robot in the Mirror. Connection Science, 20(4):337-358 2008.  

Mellmann, H., Juengel, M. and Spranger, M. Using Reference Objects to Improve Vision-Based Bearing Measurements. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008. IROS 2008., 2008. IEEE  

Spranger, M. World Models for Grounded Language Games. German Diplom (Master) Thesis, Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin, March 2008.