Publications (Willem Zuidema)

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forthcoming

Phong Le and Willem Zuidema (under review)
Martin Rochmeier, Willem Zuidema, Geraint Wiggins and Constance Scharff (under review)
Björn Merker, Willem Zuidema and Iain Cross (under review).
Raquel Alhama, Remko Scha, and Willem Zuidema, Memorization of sequence-segments by humans and rats: the Retention-Recognition Model (in prep).

2014

Phong Le and Willem Zuidema, The Inside-Outside Recursive Neural Network model for Dependency Parsing, Proceedings EMNLP'14.
Willem Zuidema, Requirements on Scenarios for the Evolution of Language and Cognition (accepted for Evolang'14)
Raquel Alhama, Remko Scha, and Willem Zuidema, Rule Learning in Humans and Animals (accepted for Evolang'14)
Marieke Woensdregt and Willem Zuidema, Neural Networks, Algebraic Rules & Human Uniqueness (accepted for Evolang'14)

2013

Willem Zuidema and Bart de Boer, Modelling in the Language Sciences. In: Sharma and Podesva, Research Methods in Linguistics, Cambridge University Press (2013)
Borensztajn, G., Zuidema, W. and Bechtel, W. (2013). Systematicity and the need for encapsulated representations. In Calvo, P. and Symons, J., (eds.) The Architecture of Cognition, MIT Press.
Barend Beekhuizen, Rens Bod, and Willem Zuidema (2013), Three Design Principles of Language: The Search for Parsimony in Redundancy. Language and Speech, Volume 56(3), pp265–290. (doi: 10.1177/0023830913484897)
Phong Le, Willem Zuidema and Remko Scha (2013) Learning from errors: Using vector-based compositional semantics for parse reranking. Workshop on Continuous Vector Space Models and their Compositionality (ACL 2013). (pdf)
Willem Zuidema, Contextfreeness Revisited (2013). Proceedings CogSci'13. (pdf)
Carel ten Cate, Robert Lachlan, and Willem Zuidema, Analyzing the structure of bird vocalizations and language: finding common ground. In: Bolhuis and Everaert (eds), Birdsong, Speech, And Language - Exploring the Evolution of Mind and Brain, MIT Press (2013)
Willem Zuidema, Language in Nature: on the Evolutionary Roots of a Cultural Phenomenon. In: Philippe Binder and Kenny Smith (eds.), The Language Phenomenon, Berlin: Springer (2013)

2012

Willem Zuidema, Language in Nature: on the evolutionary roots of a cultural, ILLC Preprint Series (PP-2012-13), University of Amsterdam.
P. Lê & W. Zuidema (2012). Learning Compositional Semantics for Open Domain Semantic Parsing. In: Proceedings of COLING 2012 (Mumbai, India).

2011

Jelle Zuidema, Taalonderzoek binnen en buiten de gebaande paden, Cavia 26: pp14-17. (pdf)
Richard Kunert, Raquel Fernández, and Willem Zuidema (2011) Adaptation in Child Directed Speech: Evidence from Corpora. In Proceedings of the 15th SEMDIAL Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Los Angelogue), pp. 112-119, Los Angeles, California. (pdf)
Federico Sangati and Willem Zuidema. 2011. Accurate Parsing with Compact Tree-Substitution Grammars: Double-DOP. In Proceedings of the Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP'11), pp 84-95. (pdf)
Gideon Borensztajn and Willem Zuidema. 2011. Episodic grammar: a computational model of the interaction between episodic and semantic memory in language processing. Proceedings of the 33d Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci'11), pp 507-512 (pdf)

2010

Federico Sangati, Willem Zuidema, and Rens Bod. 2010. Efficiently extracting recurring tree fragments from large treebanks. In Proceedings of LREC.
Maarten Versteegh, Federico Sangati, and Willem Zuidema (2010), Simulations Of Socio-Linguistic Change: Implications For Unidirectionality, Proceedings Evolang8 (Utrecht, April 2010)
Willem Zuidema and Arie Verhagen, What are the unique design features of language? Formal tools for comparative claims. Adaptive Behavior. Vol. 18, No. 1, 48-65
Bart de Boer and Willem Zuidema, Multi-agent simulations of the evolution of combinatorial phonology. Adaptive Behavior. Vol. 18, No 2., 141-154

2009

Willem Zuidema, A syllable frequency list for Dutch, ILLC Preprint Series (PP-2009-50), University of Amsterdam. () pdf manuscript (email me to obtain the full appendix).
Bart de Boer and Willem Zuidema, Models of Language Evolution: Does the Math Add Up? ILLC Preprint Series (PP-2009-49), University of Amsterdam. pdf manuscript
Van Heijningen, De Visser, Zuidema and Ten Cate, Simple rules can explain discrimination of putative recursive syntactic structures by a songbird species, Proceeding National Academy of Sciencies - USA (PNAS), December 1, 2009, vol. 106, no. 48, pp.20538-20543 PNAS website
Federico Sangati, Willem Zuidema and Rens Bod, 2009, An accurate re-ranking generative model for dependency parsing. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Parsing Technologies (IWPT'09), pp 238-241 pdf
Federico Sangati and Willem Zuidema, Unsupervised Methods for Head Assignments (2009), Proceedings of the 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the ACL (EACL'09), pp. 701-709. pdf
Vanessa Ferdinand and Willem Zuidema (2009), Thomas' Theorem meets Bayes' Rule: a model of the iterated learning of language, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci'09), pp.1786-1791.
Gideon Borensztajn, Willem Zuidema, and Rens Bod (2009), The hierarchical prediction network: towards a neural theory of language, Proceedings of the 31st Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (Cogsci'09), pp.2974-2979.
Willem Zuidema and Bart de Boer (2009), The evolution of combinatorial phonology. Journal of Phonetics Volume 37, Issue 2, April 2009, Pages 125-144 pdf local copy
Gideon Borensztajn, Willem Zuidema and Rens Bod (2009), Children's grammars grow more abstract with age - Evidence from an automatic procedure for identifying the productive units of language. TopiCS in Cognitive Science 1(1):175-188 pdf

2008

Gideon Borensztajn, Jelle Zuidema and Rens Bod, Taalverwerving: De wetenschap van de kleine wetenschapper, Kunst en Wetenschap, 17/4:9-10, December 2008 (in Dutch).
Willem Zuidema, Bart de Boer, Evolutionary Explanations for Natural Language - Criteria from Evolutionary Biology. ILLC Preprint Series (PP-2008-56), University of Amsterdam pdf
V. Ferdinand and W. Zuidema, An experiment in iterated function learning, ILLC Preprint Series (PP-2008-53), University of Amsterdam pdf
V. Ferdinand and W. Zuidema, Language adapting to the brain: a study of a Bayesian iterated learning model, ILLC Preprint Series (PP-2008-54), University of Amsterdam pdf
Gideon Borensztajn, Willem Zuidema and Rens Bod (2008), Children's grammars grow more abstract with age - Evidence from an automatic procedure for identifying the productive units of language. Proceedings CogSci, 2008. pdf manuscript
Willem Zuidema (2008), Empirical evidence for recursive hierarchical structure in child language. In: Sakas, W (ed.), Proceedings Workshop on Psycho-Computational Models of Language Acquisition
Willem Zuidema, A gradual path to hierarchical phrase-structure: insights from modeling and corpus data. In: Andrew D M Smith, Kenny Smith and Ramon Ferrer i Cancho (eds). The Evolution of Language - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (Evolang7), World Scientific.
Federico Sangati and Willem Zuidema, Communication, Cooperation, and Coherence. In: Andrew D M Smith, Kenny Smith and Ramon Ferrer i Cancho (eds). The Evolution of Language - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference (Evolang7), World Scientific, pp. 491-492.

2007

Gideon Borensztajn and Willem Zuidema (2007), Bayesian Model Merging for Unsupervised Constituent Labeling and Grammar Induction. ILLC Prepublication PP-2007-40, University of Amsterdam. pdf
Willem Zuidema (2007), Parsimonious Data-Oriented Parsing, in: Proceedings of the 2007 Joint Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning (EMNLP-CoNLL 2007). pdf manuscript

2006

Willem Zuidema, What are the Productive Units of Natural Language Grammar? A DOP Approach to the Automatic Identification of Constructions. Proceedings CONLL'06. (pdf manuscript). (Note: the mentioned supplementary material giving the derivation of equation~8 is superceded by the EMNLP-CoNLL 2007 paper above).
Willem Zuidema, Theoretical Evaluation of Estimation Methods for Data-Oriented Parsing, in: Conference Companion / Proceedings 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (EACL'06), published by the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 183-186. (pdf corrected manuscript; note: the published version of this paper contains an error - see corrigendum.)
Willem Zuidema and Timothy O'Donnell, Beyond the argument from design (extended abstract), Proceedings Evolang 5 (pdf)

2005

Willem Zuidema, The Major Transitions in the Evolution of Language, Theoretical and Applied Linguistics, University of Edinburgh, UK, 2005. (download pdf: 1.9Mb)

2004

Bart de Boer and Willem Zuidema, From Holistic to Combinatorial Signals (extended abstract), Proceedings Evolang 4 (txt).
Timothy O'Donnell and Willem Zuidema, Mathematical Linguistics and Language Evolution (extended abstract), Proceedings Evolang 4 (txt).

2003

Willem Zuidema, Optimal Communication in a Noisy and Heterogeneous Environment, in: W. Banzhaf, T. Christaller, P. Dittrich, J. T. Kim, and J. Ziegler, editors, Advances in Artificial Life - Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL), Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Vol. 2801, pp. 553-563, Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2003 (pdf manuscript and supplementary material)
Willem Zuidema and Gert Westermann, Evolution of an Optimal Lexicon under Constraints from Embodiment, Artificial Life, vol. 9, issue 4, pp 387-402, 2003. (pdf manuscript)
Willem Zuidema and Bart de Boer, How did we get from there to here in the evolution of language? Behavioral and Brain Sciences (in press for BBS issue 26(6), 2003) (Commentary on R. Jackendoff, Foundations of Language, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK, 2002). (pdf manuscript)
Nick Barton and Willem Zuidema, Evolution: The erratic path towards complexity, Current Biology, vol. 13, issue 16, pp. 649-651, 2003. (Commentary on R. Lenski, C. Ofria, R. Pennock, and C. Adami, The evolutionary origin of complex features, Nature, vol. 8, pp. 139-144, 2003). (pdf manuscript)
Willem Zuidema, How the poverty of the stimulus solves the poverty of the stimulus, in: Suzanna Becker, Sebastian Thrun, and Klaus Obermayer (eds.), Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 15 (Proceedings of NIPS'02), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 51-58, 2003. (postscript) (pdf)

2002

Andy Gardner and Willem Zuidema, Is evolvability involved in the origin of modular variation?, Evolution 57, Nr. 6, pp 1448-1450, 2003. (Commentary on Lipson, Pollack and Suh (2002), On the origin of modular variation, Evolution 56, pp. 1549-1556). (pdf manuscript)
Willem Zuidema, The importance of social learning in the evolution of cooperation and communication, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 25, issue 2, pp 283-284, 2002; Commentary on Howard Rachlin, Altruism and Selfishness, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Vol. 25, issue 2, pp. 239-250, 2002.
Joachim De Beule, Joris Van Looveren and Willem Zuidema, *From perception to language: grounding formal syntax in an almost real world, presented at the Belgium-Netherlands Artificial Intelligence Conference, October 21-22. 2002, Leuven, Belgium
Willem Zuidema, *Language adaptation helps language acquisition (2002), in: Bridget Hallam, Dario Floreano, John Hallam, Gillian Hayes and Jean-Arcady Meyer (Eds.), From Animals to Animats 7 (Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, Edinburgh, August 4-9, 2002), MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 417-418 (postscript) (pdf)
Willem Zuidema, *Language Adaptation helps Language Acquisition (2002), presented at International Workshop on Self-Organization and Evolution of Social Behaviour, September 8-13, Monte Verita, Switzerland; article in Proceedings
Willem Zuidema, *How the poverty of stimulus solves the poverty of stimulus (abstract [pdf]), presented at Evolution of Language 2002

2001

Willem Zuidema, Emergent syntax: the unremitting value of computational modeling for understanding the origins of complex language (2001), AI-MEMO 01-04, AI-Lab, VUB Brussels (postscript) (pdf) (long version of conference publication with the same title)
Willem Zuidema and Gert Westermann, On the Relevance of Language Evolution Models for Cognitive Science (2001), AI-MEMO 01-03, AI-Lab, VUB Brussels (postscript) (pdf) (long version of Zuidema and Westermann (2001), DECO)
Willem Zuidema, Language is different: the relevance of group, culture and computers in the evolution of syntax, presented at the OHLL Coevolution of Syntax and Semantics meeting, September 2001, Paris, France.
Willem Zuidema, *Emergent syntax: the unremitting value of computational modeling for understanding the origins of complex language (2001), in: Kelemen and Sosik (eds.), Advances in Artificial Life (Proceedings 6th European Conference on Artificial Life, Prague, September 10-14, 2001), Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol. 2159, Springer, Berlin, pp. 641-644, (postscript) (pdf) (all papers online at the ECAL2001-website ; buy the book at the publisher's page - Springer )
Willem Zuidema and Gert Westermann, *Towards formal models of embodiment and selforganization of language (presented at DECO-2001, Edinburgh, July 31st 2001); article in Proceedings

2000

Willem Hero Zuidema, Evolution of syntax in groups of agents (2000): Master's thesis, Theoretical Biology, Utrecht University
Willem Zuidema and Paulien Hogeweg, Selective advantages of syntactic language - a model study, in: Gleitman and Joshi (eds.), Proceedings of the 22nd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Hillsdale, USA, pp. 577 - 582, 2000. (postscript) (pdf) (all papers online at the Cogsci2000-website; buy the book at the publisher's page - Erlbaum)
Willem Zuidema, Language evolution: establishing conventions and exploiting constraints (2000), presented at Bene-Evolang 2000
Willem Zuidema and Paulien Hogeweg, *Social patterns guide evolving grammars (2000) (postscript) (pdf) Presented at the Evolution of language 2000 conference; article in Proceedings

1999

Willem Zuidema and Paulien Hogeweg, *Selective advantages of grammatical language, abstract (html) of presentation at Theory and Mathematics in Biology and Medicin 1999.
Willem Zuidema, Social patterns restrict evolving grammars (1999) -- appendix a -- appendix b (postscript): Internal report (stageverslag); appendix a contains the basic program code for the language evolution model used in other papers and the thesis above.
Willem Zuidema, Rule-learning in recurrent neural networks (1999) and appendix (program code) (postscript): class paper for "connectionism"