N.B. THIS PAGE IS NO LONGER CURRENT! You should probably be at Simlang 2014
You’ll find here a growing list of links to materials for the Simulating Language Course running in 2011/2012.
If you want to install the Python distribution we use in the labs on your own machine, follow this link to the download site. Note, you want to install EPD 32-BIT. Alternative Python distributions exist that should work too.
Note: Labs are in room 1.16, Dugald Stewart Building. Monday Lectures are in DHT Lecture Theatre C. Thursday and Friday Lectures are in 7 Bristo Square, Lecture Theatre 3.
Week 1
Schedule of lectures and labs
Assignments of students to lab sessions
Lecture 1 slides
Worksheet 1
Worksheet 1 example functions
Lecture 2 slides
Week 2
Worksheet 2
Worksheet 2 walkthrough
signalling1.py
Lecture 3 slides
Oliphant (1996)
Mitchell (1998)
Week 3
Worksheet 3
signalling2.py
Worksheet 4
evolution1.py
Lecture 4 slides
Week 4
Lecture 5 slides
Bechtel & Abrahamsen (1991)
Worksheet 5
learning1.py
Week 5
Lecture 6 slides
Worksheet 6
learning2.py
Christiansen & Devlin (1997)
Week 7
Lecture 7 slides
Mesoudi & Whiten (2008)
Smith (2002)
learning3.py
Worksheet 7
Lecture 8 slides
Smith (2004)
Week 8
Siskind (1996)
Lecture 9 slides
Worksheet 8
learning4.py
Extra reading: A.D.M. Smith (2003)
Week 10
Lecture 10 slides
Kirby, Cornish & Smith (2008)
Kirby & Hurford (2002)
Lecture 11 slides
Worksheet 9
bayes1.py
Week 11
Kirby et al (2007)
Griffiths and Kalish (2007)
Lecture 12 slides
Smith (2009) [Proceedings of Cogsci Society conference]
Burkett and Griffiths (2010) [Proceedings of EVOLANG conference]
Week 12