Publications

• Steels L. (2018), Building Agents out of Autonomous Behavior Systems in Steels, L. (Ed.), Brooks, R. (Ed.). (2018). The Artificial Life Route to Artificial Intelligence. London: Routledge.
• Steels L, Beuls K & Van Eecke P (2018), Usage-based learning of grammatical categories. In: Atzmueller, M. and W. Duivesteijn (eds.) (2018) Proceedings of BNAIC 2018. Series Communications in Computer and Information Sciences, Springer Verlag, Berlin.
• Steels L, (2018) Artificial Intelligence and Urban Community Memories. In: Diez, T. (ed) Fab City. The mass distribution of (almost) everything. Iaac Fab Lab, Barcelona. p. 34-45
• Steels L & Lopez de Mantaras R (2018), The Barcelona declaration for the proper development and usage of artificial intelligence in Europe. AI Communications, vol. 31, no. 6, pp. 485-494.
• Beuls K, Steels L & Van Eecke, P (2018), Strategies for Interactive Task Learning and Teaching. In: Laird, J. & Gluck, K. (eds.). Interactive Task Learning : Agents, Robots, and Humans Acquiring New Tasks through Natural Interaction.  MIT Press, Strüngmann Forum Reports. Cambridge Ma.
• Steels, L (2018), What needs to be done to ensure the ethical use of AI?, Artificial Intelligence Research and Development Z Falomir et al. (Eds.) in 21st International Conference of the Catalan Association for Artificial Intelligence. IOS Press. DOI: 10.3233/978-1-61499-918-8-10
• Steels, L (2017). Do languages evolve or merely change? Journal of Neurolinguistics Volume 43, pp 199-203.
• Steels L & Beuls K (2017), How to Explain the Origins of Complexity in Language: A Case Study for Agreement Systems, In Mufwene S, Coupé C & Pellegrino F (Eds.), Complexity in Language: Developmental and Evolutionary Perspectives (Cambridge Approaches to Language Contact) pp. 30-47. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Steels L (2017), Artificiële intelligentie is de onschuld voorbij in Brockman J, Van der Waa F & Corver H (eds.) Wetenschappelijke parels, Maven Publishing.
• Steels L (2017), Human language is a culturally evolving system, Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, vol. 24, 1, pp 190–193.
• Steels L, & Feldman J (eds.) (2017) Computational Construction Grammar and Natural Language Understanding. Papers from the 2017 AAAI Spring Symposium. Technical Report SS-17-02.
• Steels L & Szathmary E (2017), The evolutionary dynamics of language, Biosystems, 164, pp 128-137.
• Steels L 2017 Requirements for Computational Construction Grammars. In: Steels, L. and J. Feldman (eds.) (2017) Computational Construction Grammar and Natural Language Understanding. Papers from the 2017 AAAI Spring Symposium. Technical Report SS-17-02 AAAI Press, Palo Alto Ca. p. 251-257. ISBN 978-1-57735-754-4
• Steels L (2017), Basics of Fluid Construction Grammar, Constructions and Frames, vol. 9 no. 2, pp 178-225.
• Bogh, J., X Boix, N. Chang, E. Churchill, V. Chu, F. Fang, J. Feldman, A. Gonzalez, T. Kido, W. Lawless, J. Montana, S. Ontanon, J. Sinapov, D. Sofge, L. Steels, M. Wright Steenson, K. Takadama, A. Yadav. (2017) Reports on the 2017 AAAI Spring Symposium Series. AI Magazine, 38 (4). https://doi.org/10.1609/aimag.v38i3.2754
• Steels, L. and E. Szathmary (2016) Fluid Construction Grammar as a Biological System. Linguistics Vanguard, Volume 2, Isssue 1, 20150022. DOI: 10.1515/lingvan-2015-0022
• Steels, L., M. Loetzsch, M. Spranger (2016) A Boy Named Sue. The Semiotic Dynamics of Naming and Identity. Belgian Journal of Linguistics, Volume 30, Issue 1 pp 147-152. DOI: 10.1075/bjl.30.07ste
• Steels, L. (2016). Meaning and creativity in language. Creativity and Universality in Language. Lecture notes in Morphogenesis 2016 6-1, pp 197-208. 
• Garcia-Casademont, E. and L. Steels (2016). Insight Grammar Learning. Journal of Cognitive Science 17-1: 27-62. 
• Steels, L. (2016). Agent-based models for the emergence and evolution of grammar. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Journal, Biol SCI Volume 371 Issue 1710. 
• Steels, L. (2016). Human language is a culturally evolving system. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review Volume 24, Issue 1, pp.1-4. 
• Steels, L. (2016) I'm gonna have to science the shit out of this: Comment on “Towards a Computational Comparative Neuroprimatology: Framing the language-ready brain” by Michael A. Arbib. Phisics of life reviews Volume 16, pp-96-98.
• Hannape, P., Dunlop, R., Duval, N., Maes, A. and L. Steels (2016). Agroecology (2016): A Fertile Field for Human Computation. Human Computation 2016 Volume 1 Issue 1.
• Garcia-Casademont, E. and L.Steels (2015) How to play the syntax game. Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Life 2015, pp. 479-486. 
• Steels, L. and E. Garcia-Casademont (2015). Ambiguity and the origins of syntax. The Linguistic Review 2015, V32-1, pp 37-60. 
• Garcia-Casademont, E. and L.Steels (2015) Usage-based Grammar Learning as Insight Problem Solving. Proceedings on the CEUR, AACMEN: European-Asia-Pacific Cognitive Science Conference. pp. 258–263.
• Van Eecke, P and L. Steels (2015) The role of pro-and anti-unification in insight grammar learning. 
• Knight, Y., M. Spranger and L. Steels (2015) A vector representation of Fluid construction Grammar using Holographic Reduced Representations. 
• Funabashi, M., Hanappe, P., Isozaki, T., Maes A., Sasaki, T., Steels, L. and Yoshida, K. Foundation of CS-DC e-laboratory: Open Systems Exploration for Ecosystems Leveraging. Proceedings of Complex Systems Digital Campus '15 (CS-DC'15), Phoenix, Arizona (USA), Sept. 28-Oct. 2 2015. 
• Steels, L. (2014). Breaking down false barriers in understanding. In: Dor, D., C. Knight and J. Lewis. The Social Origins of Language: Early Society, Communication and Polymodality. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 336-393
• Gangemi, A., Hafner, V. V, Kuhn, W., Scheider, S., Steels, L., and W. Kuhn (2014). Spatial reference in the Semantic Web and in Robotics. Dagstuhl Reports, 4(3), 181–201. doi:10.4230/DagRep.4.3.181
• Garcia-Casademont, E. and L. Steels (2014). Strategies for the emergence of first-order phrase structure. In: The Evolution of Language (pp. 50–57). doi:10.1142/9789814603638_0005
• Spranger, M., & Steels, L. (2014). Discovering communication through ontogenetic ritualisation. In 4th International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (pp. 14–19). IEEE. doi:10.1109/DEVLRN.2014.6982948
• Steels, L. (2013) How language emerges in situated embodied interactions. In: Lefebvre, C., B. Comrie (2013) New Perspectives on the Origins of Language. John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam.
• Beuls, K., and L. Steels (2013). Agent-Based Models of Strategies for the Emergence and Evolution of Grammatical Agreement. PLoS ONE, 8(3), 1–15. 
• Wellens, P., Trijp, R. Van, Beuls, K., and L. Steels (2013). Fluid Construction Grammar for Historical and Evolutionary Linguistics. In Proceedings of the 51st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 127–132).
• Trijp, R. Van, Steels, L., Beuls, K., & Wellens, P. (2012). Fluid Construction Grammar : The New Kid on the Block. In Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (pp. 63–68). Association for Computational Linguistics.
• Van Trijp, R., & Steels, L. (2012). Multilevel Alignment Maintains Language Systematicity. Advances in Complex Systems, 15(03n04). 
• Spranger, M., & Steels, L. (2012b). Synthetic modeling of cultural language evolution. In Five approaches to Language Evolution: 9th International Conference on the Evolution of Language (pp. 130–139).
• Steels, L. (2012c). Evolutionary language games as a paradigm for integrated AI research. In AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report (Vol. SS-12–02, pp. 79–80). 
• Steels, L. (2012f). Interactions between cultural, social and biological explanations for language evolution. Physics of Life Reviews, 9(1), 5–8.
• Steels, L (2011) Modelling the cultural evolution of language. Phisic of life Review 11.10. 014. 
• Steels, L. (2011) Why we need evolutionary semantics. KI 2011: Advances in Artificial Intelligence, 14-25. LNAI Springer-Verlag, Berlin.
• Steels, L. (2010) Modeling The Formation of Language in Embodied Agents: Methods and Open Challenges. In Nolfi, S. and M Mirolli (2010) Evolution of Communication and Language in Embodied Agents, Springer Verlag. pp. 223--233. DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-01250
• Steels, L. and M. Spranger (2009) How experience of the body shapes language about space. IJCAI-09. Pasadena, Ca. AAAI Press, pages 14-19.
• Bleys, J., Loetzsch, M., Spranger, M. and Steels, L. The Grounded Color Naming Game. Proceedings of the 18th IEEE Intern Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-man 2009).
• Steels, L. and M. Loetzsch (2009) Perspective Alignment in Spatial Language. In: Coventry, K., J. Bateman and T. Tenbrink (2009) Spatial Language in Dialogue. Oxford University Press. [cit:98]
• Steels, L. (2008) Cognition and social dynamics play a major role in the formation of grammar. In: D. Bickerton and E. Szathmary (2008) (eds.) Biological Foundations and Origin of Syntax. Strungmann Forum Reports, The MIT Press, Cambridge Ma. [cit:10]
• Steels, L. (2008) The Symbol Grounding Problem has been solved. So What's Next? In: Glenberg, A., A. Graesser, and M. de Vega (eds) (2008) Symbols, Embodiment and Meaning. Oxford University Press, Oxford. pp. 506-557. [cit:146]

Fellowships & Awards

• 1977- ITT Fellow at the MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab.
• 1996- Elected Member New York Academy of Sciences.
• 2008- Visiting fellow Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico.
• 2009- Elected member European Academy (Academia Europea).
• 2009- Elected member Flemish Royal Academy of Belgium.
• 2009/10- Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advances Studies) in Berlin.
• 2010- Permanent Fellow Goldsmith’s College, London.
• 2015/16- Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin.