Jérôme Botoko Ekila

My complete and most up-to-date publication list can be found on Google Scholar.

2026

Cultural Evolution Drives the Emergence of Conventions in Neural Emergent Communication

Toquebiau, M., Botoko Ekila, J., Beuls, K. & Van Eecke, P. (Accepted). In Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP 2026).

Paper - EMNLP 2026 Presented at CLIN 36

@inproceedings{toquebiau-etal-2026-cultural,
  title = {Cultural Evolution Drives the Emergence of Conventions in Neural Emergent Communication},
  author = {Toquebiau, Maxime and {Botoko Ekila}, Jérôme and Beuls, Katrien and Van Eecke, Paul},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing},
  year = {2026},
  note = {Accepted}
}

Emergent Communication in Continuous Worlds: Self-Organisation of Conceptually Grounded Vocabularies at Scale

Botoko Ekila, J., Verheyen, L., Nevens, J., Beuls, K. & Van Eecke, P. (2026). Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 14, 2234–2257.

Paper - TACL Website Code Presented at EMNLP 2026 Presented at BNAIC 2026

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  title = {Emergent Communication in Continuous Worlds: Self-Organisation of Conceptually Grounded Vocabularies at Scale},
  author = {{Botoko Ekila}, Jérôme and Verheyen, Lara and Nevens, Jens and Beuls, Katrien and Van Eecke, Paul},
  journal = {Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics},
  volume = {14},
  pages = {2234--2257},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1162/TACL.a.799}
}

Conventionality Produces More Robust, Learnable and Efficient Emergent Languages

Wright, J., Verheyen, L., De Ponte, F., Botoko Ekila, J., Beuls, K. & Van Eecke, P. (2026). Journal of Language Evolution, 11, lzag006.

Paper - JOLE Presented at CLIN 35

@article{wright-etal-2026-conventionality,
  title = {Conventionality Produces More Robust, Learnable and Efficient Emergent Languages},
  author = {Wright, Jamie and Verheyen, Lara and De Ponte, Fabio and {Botoko Ekila}, Jérôme and Beuls, Katrien and Van Eecke, Paul},
  journal = {Journal of Language Evolution},
  volume = {11},
  pages = {lzag006},
  year = {2026},
  doi = {10.1093/jole/lzag006}
}

2025

Neuro-Symbolic Procedural Semantics for Explainable Visual Dialogue

Verheyen, L., Botoko Ekila, J., Nevens, J., Van Eecke, P. & Beuls, K. (2025). PLOS One, 20(5), e0323098.

Paper - PLOS One

@article{verheyen-etal-2025-neurosymbolic,
  title = {Neuro-Symbolic Procedural Semantics for Explainable Visual Dialogue},
  author = {Verheyen, Lara and {Botoko Ekila}, Jérôme and Nevens, Jens and Van Eecke, Paul and Beuls, Katrien},
  journal = {PLOS One},
  volume = {20},
  number = {5},
  pages = {e0323098},
  year = {2025},
  doi = {10.1371/journal.pone.0323098}
}

Constructions All the Way Up: From Sensory Experiences to Construction Grammars

Botoko Ekila, J., Verheyen, L., Beuls, K. & Van Eecke, P. (2025). In Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP (CxGs+NLP 2025), 84–95.

Paper - CxGs+NLP 2025 Presented at CLIN 35

@inproceedings{botokoekila-etal-2025-constructions,
  title = {Constructions All the Way Up: From Sensory Experiences to Construction Grammars},
  author = {{Botoko Ekila}, Jérôme and Verheyen, Lara and Beuls, Katrien and Van Eecke, Paul},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on Construction Grammars and NLP},
  pages = {84--95},
  year = {2025}
}

2024

Decentralised Emergence of Robust and Adaptive Linguistic Conventions in Populations of Autonomous Agents Grounded in Continuous Worlds

Botoko Ekila, J., Nevens, J., Verheyen, L., Beuls, K. & Van Eecke, P. (2024). In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024), 2168–2170.

Paper - AAMAS 2024 Presented at ALA 2024 Presented at CLIN 33

@inproceedings{botokoekila-etal-2024-decentralised,
  title = {Decentralised Emergence of Robust and Adaptive Linguistic Conventions in Populations of Autonomous Agents Grounded in Continuous Worlds},
  author = {{Botoko Ekila}, Jérôme and Nevens, Jens and Verheyen, Lara and Beuls, Katrien and Van Eecke, Paul},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems},
  pages = {2168--2170},
  year = {2024}
}

Emergence of Linguistic Conventions in Multi-Agent Systems Through Situated Communicative Interactions

Botoko Ekila, J. (2024). In Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2024), 2725–2727.

Paper - AAMAS 2024

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  title = {Emergence of Linguistic Conventions in Multi-Agent Systems Through Situated Communicative Interactions},
  author = {{Botoko Ekila}, Jérôme},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems},
  pages = {2725--2727},
  year = {2024}
}

2023

Neuro-Symbolic Procedural Semantics for Reasoning-Intensive Visual Dialogue Tasks

Verheyen, L., Botoko Ekila, J., Nevens, J., Van Eecke, P. & Beuls, K. (2023). In Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI 2023), 2419–2426.

Paper - ECAI 2023

@inproceedings{verheyen-etal-2023-neurosymbolic,
  title = {Neuro-Symbolic Procedural Semantics for Reasoning-Intensive Visual Dialogue Tasks},
  author = {Verheyen, Lara and {Botoko Ekila}, Jérôme and Nevens, Jens and Van Eecke, Paul and Beuls, Katrien},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 26th European Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
  pages = {2419--2426},
  year = {2023},
  doi = {10.3233/FAIA230544}
}

2022

Language Games Meet Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: A Case Study for the Naming Game

Van Eecke, P., Beuls, K., Botoko Ekila, J. & Rădulescu, R. (2022). Journal of Language Evolution, 7(2), 213–223.

Paper - JOLE Code Presented at BNAIC 2023 Presented at CLIN 32

@article{vaneecke-etal-2022-naming-game,
  title = {Language Games Meet Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning: A Case Study for the Naming Game},
  author = {Van Eecke, Paul and Beuls, Katrien and {Botoko Ekila}, Jérôme and Rădulescu, Roxana},
  journal = {Journal of Language Evolution},
  volume = {7},
  number = {2},
  pages = {213--223},
  year = {2022},
  doi = {10.1093/jole/lzad001}
}

Hybrid Procedural Semantics for Visual Dialogue: An Interactive Web Demonstration

Verheyen, L., Botoko Ekila, J., Nevens, J., Van Eecke, P. & Beuls, K. (2022). In Proceedings of the IJCAI 2022 Workshop on Semantic Techniques for Narrative-Based Understanding, 48–52.

Paper - SemNBU @ IJCAI 2022 Interactive demo Presented at CLIN 32

@inproceedings{verheyen-etal-2022-hybrid,
  title = {Hybrid Procedural Semantics for Visual Dialogue: An Interactive Web Demonstration},
  author = {Verheyen, Lara and {Botoko Ekila}, Jérôme and Nevens, Jens and Van Eecke, Paul and Beuls, Katrien},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Workshop on Semantic Techniques for Narrative-Based Understanding},
  series = {CEUR Workshop Proceedings},
  volume = {3322},
  pages = {48--52},
  year = {2022}
}