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Lingodroids: Cross-Situational Learning for Episodic Elements

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Scott Heath *
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David Ball
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Janet Wiles
DOI:10.1109/TAMD.2015.2442619delete
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For robots to effectively bootstrap the acquisition of language, they must handle referential uncertainty-the problem of deciding what meaning to ascribe to a given word. Typically when socially grounding terms for space and time, the underlying sensor or representation was specified within the grammar of a conversation, which constrained language learning to words for innate features. In this paper, we demonstrate that cross-situational learning resolves the issues of referential uncertainty for bootstrapping a language for episodic space and time; therefore removing the need to specify the underlying sensors or representations a priori. The requirements for robots to be able to link words to their designated meanings are presented and analyzed within the Lingodroids-language learning robots-framework. We present a study that compares predetermined associations given a priori against unconstrained learning using cross-situational learning. This study investigates the long-term coherence, immediate usability and learning time for each condition. Results demonstrate that for unconstrained learning, the long-term coherence is unaffected, though at the cost of increased learning time and hence decreased immediate usability.
Keywords:
Cross-situational learning
episodic
language learning
Lingodroids
robots
space
symbol grounding
time
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IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems cover
IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems
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