Christine Cuskley visited CSL Paris

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Christine Cuskley, (https://ccuskley.github.io/) Evolutionary linguist, cognitive scientist, at the centre for language evolution of the university of Edinburgh, visited CSL Paris and had extensive interactions with the Creativity team about the topic of language dynamics and the Creastoria game for collective storytelling.

New paper on “Copystree. Gaming artificial phylogenies”

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A new paper just appeared on Language Dynamics and Change (http://booksandjournals.brillonline.com/content/journals/10.1163/22105832-00801003) about Copystree, an online experiment to create artificial phylogenies. The reconstruction of phylogenies of cultural artifacts represents an open problem that mixes theoretical and computational challenges. Existing benchmarks rely on simulated phylogenies, where hypotheses on the underlying evolutionary mechanisms are unavoidable, or on real […]