This workshop will be held in a hybrid style: both onsite and online participants join a virtual workshop place based on a proximity chat system (such as oVice, gathr.town).
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The related research topic in Frontiers in AI was launched!
The deadline for abstract submission is extended to June 12th!!
The workshop website was created (2022/04/24).
The deadline for the poster presentation is June 5th
The whole schedule of the main conference is not fixed but the workshop is planned to be held on Sep. 5th.
June 12th: The deadline for abstract submission for the poster presentation
September 5th: Workshop date
All the posters in this workshop were accepted as on-site presentations, so the poster session in the workshop will be conducted on-site only.
Instead, we would like to ask the presenters to put your online poster on oVice, which will be an online communication service for the online poster session at the main conference, and the presenters can introduce your work there.
In addition, your on-site poster will be put through the main conference, so you can present your poster in the on-site poster session at the main conference too.
The study of language evolution has focused both on the biological evolution of linguistic abilities of humans and the cultural evolution of language, which could have coevolved with each other. Such interactions between different levels of evolutionary systems are also occurring in modern societies, that is, the coevolution of communication platforms and communicative interactions on those platforms.
In particular, online communication platforms recently have become popular due to the COVID-19 pandemic. While such techniques have reduced spatial constraints in our communication, we need to interact with people, avatars, and agents in different situations on various online platforms (e.g., Zoom, SpatialChat, Spatial, clubhouse, VRChat), which are different from face-to-face communication. Meanwhile, this allows us to adapt to or coevolve with such recently emerging communication systems.
How can we take advantage of this opportunity to facilitate co-creative communication for novel value creation? We believe that a constructive approach to the origin and evolution of language can contribute to designing novel forms of interactions for co-creative communication. The constructive approach has developed various ways to create artificial and communicative contexts (e.g., game-theoretical experiments, human-robot interactions, cultural transmission experiments, experimental semiotic approaches, artificial agents, cognitive architectures, network modelings, artificial life) to consider possible scenarios of language and cultural evolution. At the same time, such artificially created situations are getting to reflect real social interactions, according to the recent technological development of communications, including human-robot systems, SNS, AR, VR, and the metaverse. In other words, we are at the origin of the evolution of novel communication in the ongoing and post-COVID-19 pandemic.
This workshop will mainly, but not exclusively, discuss how constructive approaches, related to language and cultural evolution, can contribute to co-creative communication, including related interdisciplinary studies such as empirical methods (psychological experiments, observations, and surveys), and philosophical considerations, including aesthetics and ethics.
We invite researchers in the related field for invited talks and call for presentation in a poster session (hybrid).
This workshop will be held following the successes of “EVOSLACE: Workshop on the emergence and evolution of social learning, communication, language and culture in natural and artificial agents”, held as a workshop in ALIFE2018 in Tokyo (2018), and “Constructive Approaches to Language Evolution”, held as a workshop in Evolang 9 in Kyoto (2012).
Sep. 5th
(at Assembly Room, hybrid)
10:00- Opening
10:05- Invited talk 1: Prof. Sasahara
10:30- Invited talk 2: Prof. Takahashi
(at the lobby (near the registration desk), on-site)
11:00- Poster session
11:55: Closing
(We also have an on-line poster session in the slot of the on-line poster session in the main conference.)
Kazutoshi Sasahara (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
"Computational Social Science Approaches in Language Evolution"
Language does not fossilize. This fact has hindered the progress of quantitative studies of language evolution. However, as historical linguistic materials and daily linguistic behaviors have been digitally accumulated, these digital traces have become useful materials for language evolution research. In this presentation, we showcase language evolution research using computational social science, the social science in the digital age that utilizes big data, computational methods, and information technology. First, the cultural evolution of the perfective of English was analyzed by integrating three large corpora (EEBO, COHA, and Google Books), showing that English perfect could not have evolved by random drift alone and may have been subject to evolutionary forces (natural selection). Next, we discuss the negative aspects of spreading fake news and hate speech when language meets an online environment where our intentions are overshared. We show how anti-vaccine groups intensify their aggressive behavior against other groups in the anti-vaccine campaign during the COVID-19 pandemic.
1. S. Okuda, M. Hosaka, and K. Sasahara, An integrative analysis of large-scale corpora reveals nonrandom natures of the cultural evolution of English grammar, arXiv:2110.08567 (under review)
2. K. Miyazaki, T. Uchiba, K. Tanaka, and K. Sasahara, Aggressive behaviour of anti-vaxxers and their toxic replies in English and Japanese, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9(299), 2022
Hideyuki Takahashi (Osaka University, Japan)
"Interaction with a friendly autonomous agent strengthens human “self”"
We are constantly making decisions. However, it is often not clear why we make these decisions. It is known that putting the reasons for our decisions into convincing words improves our satisfaction. However, people are not always able to articulate the reasons for their decisions on their own. In this presentation, we will present experimental findings that show that humans are able to reason convincingly about their own decisions by interacting with a friendly autonomous agents. Based on these findings, we would like to argue that one of the promising values of the symbiosis between humans and autonomous agents is that agents help humans clarify their own will.
Evolution of cooperative intentions as the evolutionary basis of human linguistic communication
Hiroto Yonenoh (University of Tsukuba), Hiromichi Kimura (Mizonokuchi Institute of Technology)
Hate communication on Facebook: The case of the tablighi jamaat controversy
Piyush Ghasiya, Kazutoshi Sasahara (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Absence of phase transition in random language model
Kai Nakaishi, Koji Hukushima (The University of Tokyo)
Factors affecting joining others' conversation
Kohei Yamamoto, Jiro Okuda (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Dynamics verification based on the Metropolis-Hastings method\\of symbol emergence experiments in multiple humans
Ryota Okumura, Yoshinobu Hagiwara, Akira Taniguchi, Tadahiro Taniguchi (Ritsumeikan University)
A Study on dialogue between humans and robots evoking conceptual blending
Haote Zhou, Takashi Hashimoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology), Guanhong Li (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies)
Multiagent Inter-GMM: Extension and verification of the symbol emergence model to more than three parties
Inukai Jun, Tadahiro Taniguti, Yoshiobu Hagiwara, Akira Taniguti (Ritsumeikan University)
Neural basis underlying production of a variety of words in conversations
Hikaru Sugimoto (RIKEN), Masato S. Abe (RIKEN, Doshisha University), Mihoko Otake-Matsuura (RIKEN)
Construction and evaluation of a self-attention model for semantic understanding of sentence-final particles
Shuhei Mandokoro (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Natsuki Oka (Miyazaki Sangyo-keiei University), Akane Matsushima, Chie Fukada (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Yuko Yoshimura (Kanazawa University), Koji Kawahara (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies) and Kazuaki Tanaka (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
Moralistic punishment in online flaming
Aogu Shimizu, Takashi Hashimoto (Kyoto Institute of Technology), Kazutoshi Sasahara (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Destruction in co-creative communication: A challenge for applying constructive approaches
Guanhong Li (Kyoto University of Foreign Studies), Xiaoyun Guo (Independent resercher)
Facilitating co-creative communication in proximity voice chat based on intervention by artificial agents
Riku Shimamoto, Reiji Suzuki, Takaya Arita (Nagoya University)
Comparison of interactive communication with and without a specified theme during co-creative drawing
Mayu Morioka, Hajime Takemura and Mitsunori Matsushita (Kansai University)
Constructive approach to play in constructionism co-creative communication
Taijun Cheng, Takashi Hashimoto (Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology)
Psycho-linguistic differences among competing vaccination communities on social media
Jialiang Shi (Nagoya University), Piyush Ghasiya, Kazutoshi Sasahara (Tokyo Institute of Technology)
Potential improvement towards co-creative communication after participating in a series of online group discussions
Tomoya Arakawa, Yuusuke Nishii, Masaya Kobayashi, Fuuko Takano, Hiroaki Mano (Kyocera Corporation), Takatsune Kumada (Kyoto University), Jungo Miyazaki (Kyocera Corporation)
A related special topic "Constructive approaches to co-creative communication" is open in Frontiers in AI. We encourage participants to submit papers. The review process is based on the standard one in Frontiers journal.
We invite poster presentations related to the topics of the workshop.
Important note: The registration for the main conference (JCoLE) is necessary.
Presentation style: A presenter can choose a preferred style of presentation:
Onsite: presenting a poster onsite and sharing the presentation with online participants on a virtual workshop place
Online: presenting a poster on a virtual workshop place, which is planned to be shared by onsite participants (depending on the available facilities)
Abstract submission: The presenter needs to submit an abstract of the presentation. The style of the abstract PDF follows the 2-page abstract format in the main conference (1 or 2-page text + references). But, please put the names of the authors directly in the PDF (non-blind review style). We do not reject the submission due to the (short) length of the abstract.
Submission process: Please submit an application at this form, and send the PDF of the abstract to ccc-in-jcole@googlegroups.com.
Deadline for the abstract submission: June 5th. We will notify the review result in a week.
Topics of interest: include but are not limited to:
Dynamics
Evolutionary dynamics of the biological and cultural evolution of language
Emergent and evolutionary dynamics of co-creative and linguistic communication in human-robot and hybrid systems
Agent-based modeling on co-creative communicative interactions
Pro-social computing for co-creative communication
Methodology and philosophy
Quantification of co-creativeness in linguistic communication
Methodologies for computational and empirical frameworks for discussing co-creative communications
Philosophical considerations including aesthetics and ethics
Design and development
Design and development of online and face-to-face systems that can facilitate co-creative communication based on natural language processing
Metaverse and XR for co-creative communication
Empirical methods and data analysis
Big data analyses of human linguistic communication
Empirical methods (psychological experiments, observations, and surveys) for understanding co-creative aspects of communication and language
Please send us any questions with regard to the workshop via e-mail: ccc-in-jcole@googlegroups.com
Reiji Suzuki (Nagoya University)
Takashi Hashimoto (JAIST)
This workshop is supported in part by MEXT/JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research on Innovative Areas Evolinguistics: Integrative Studies of Language Evolution for Co-creative Communication
