ABSTRACT
This rather novel approach to language modelling is designed to model many aspects of everyday language use that are left out by more formalist models. An example is the fact that word meaning seems to differ slightly for every individual-especially for more abstract underlying concepts-and that it can gradually vary in changing environments. Context of any kind can play a large role in that process. The assignment of meaning is a largely associative process and therefore belongs to the type of process that the sub-symbolic approach is meant to model. On the other hand, a model has to explain how (linguistic) symbols can evolve as an emergent phenomenon and how they are embedded into the sub-symbolic framework. All this requires a model that can self-adapt and does not start with specific knowledge implanted by a designer.
