Reflecting the Language Instinct in Machines

Language, they say, is an instinct instead of a learned skill. There’s a whole book on it if you’re interested. Essentially, the idea is that while language is a wrapper, the base instinct is the need to communicate. Initially, for evolutionary reasons (humans survived because of communicating survival strategies), later, to also simply express for the sake of beauty and art.Now that we have such huge advancements in the field of language, where academia and technology have joined hands to unify the limits of ontology, semantics, and communication, we must understand the base instinct of this capability to really excel.