MEMBERS OF THE GROUP (Active in 2018)
Research Assistant Meritxell Margen
HIGHLIGHTS OF 2018
Part of the work has focused on strategic planning of future AI research at the request of the European Community and the Spanish Government. Within the H2020 AI4EU project, we participated in launching a European Observatory for Ethical, legal, socio-economic and cultural issues in AI. Emilia Garcia Casademont successfully defended her thesis about the origins of phrase structure based on the hypothesis that phrase structure is not an accidental structural property of language, but rather an adaptation of language systems to cope with combinatorial explosions in semantic intepretation.
2018 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Steels L.; Szathmáry E. 2018. The evolutionary dynamics of language. BioSystems. 164:128-137 doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2017.11.003
Steels L.; De Mantaras R.L. 2018. The Barcelona declaration for the proper development and usage of artificial intelligence in Europe. AI Communications. 31(6):485-494 doi: 10.3233/AIC-180607
Steels L. 2018. What Needs to Be Done to Ensure the Ethical Use of AI?. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications. 308():10-13 doi: 10.3233/978-1-61499-918-8-10
2018 FUNDED PROJECTS
Title: Comprensión de Lenguaje Artificial en Robots
Funded by: Ministerio de Economía y competitividad (MINECO)
Date: 2015-2019
Title: Evolució de Sistemes Complexos (2017 SGR 00866). Grup de Recerca pre-consolidat reconegut i finançat per la Generalitat de Catalunya.
Funded by: AGAUR (Generalitat de Catalunya)
Date: 2017-2020