Jean-Louis Dessalles
Faculty Member, Language & Linguistics
France
My co-authors include
Jean-Louis Dessalles
Pierre-Henri Gouyon
My Publications
Explanatory AI for Pertinent Communication in Autonomic Systems
August 2019
From reflex to reflection: Two tricks AI could learn from us
Philosophies
May 2019
Information, The Hidden Side of Life
December 2018
Opening the Parallelogram: Considerations on Non-Euclidean Analogies
January 2018
Remembered events are unexpected
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
January 2018
Self-sacrifice as a social signal
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
January 2018
Incremental learning with the minimum description length principle
May 2017
Similarity and Contrast on Conceptual Spaces for Pertinent Description Generation
January 2017
A Cognitive Approach to Relevant Argument Generation
January 2016
From conceptual spaces to predicates
January 2015
Human Language: An Evolutionary Anomaly
October 2014
Can believable characters act unexpectedly?
Literary and Linguistic Computing
August 2014
Why talk
June 2014
THE ROLE OF THE HUMAN POLITICAL SINGULARITY IN THE EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE
April 2014
OPTIMAL INVESTMENT IN SOCIAL SIGNALS: what should I do to attract friends
Evolution
March 2014
Defining what "relevant" means
January 2013
The real mystery about language
Physics of Life Reviews
December 2011
Reasoning as a lie detection device
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
March 2011
Sharing cognitive dissonance as a way to reach social harmony
Social Science Information
March 2011
<i>The evolution of human language: Biolinguistic perspectives</i> (review)
Language
January 2011
Chapitre 36. Une anomalie de l’évolution : le langage
January 2011
HAVE YOU ANYTHING UNEXPECTED TO SAY? THE HUMAN PROPENSITY TO COMMUNICATE SURPRISE AND ...
March 2010
Et si la coopération était un mythe? Un pilier des sciences sociales ébranlé par la sim...
Nouvelles perspectives en sciences sociales
January 2010
Symposium on J.-L. Dessalles’s Why we Talk (OUP, 2007): Precis by J.-L. Dessalles, comm...
Biology & Philosophy
June 2009
Why is language well designed for communication? (Commentary)
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
October 2008
The communication of events
Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Sys...
March 2008
Evolution of Narrative behavior
February 2008
Storing events to retell them
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
June 2007
GENERALISED SIGNALLING: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE PARADOX OF LANGUAGE
March 2006
Emergence in Multi-Agent Systems: Cognitive Hierarchy, Detection, and Complexity Reduct...
January 2006
Object recognition is not predication
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
June 2003
Coalition Factor in the Evolution of Non-Kin Altruism
December 2002
The problematic transition from specific competences to general competence
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
December 2002
La fonction shannonienne du langage : un indice de son évolution.
Langages
January 2002
Coalition factor in the evolution of non-kin altruism
Advances in Complex Systems
June 1999
Pourquoi est-on, ou n'est-on pas, pertinent ?
Communication et Langages
January 1996
XMOISE: A logical spreadsheet to elicit didactic knowledge
January 1996
SAVANT: How to Help Engineers to Learn New Concepts
European Journal of Engineering Education
January 1992
Computer assisted concept learning
Language and Hominid Politics
Emergence in Agent-Based Computational Social Science
Narration and reasoning, from structure to biological function
Le proto-langage : de quoi les hominidés parlaient-ils ?