creators_name: Dominey, Peter Ford
creators_name: Boucher, Jean-David
editors_name: Berthouze, Luc
editors_name: Kozima, Hideki
editors_name: Prince, Christopher G.
editors_name: Sandini, Giulio
editors_name: Stojanov, Georgi
editors_name: Metta, Giorgio
editors_name: Balkenius, Christian
type: confpaper
datestamp: 2005-04-14
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:55:50
metadata_visibility: show
title: Developmental Stages of Perception and Language Acquisition in a Perceptually Grounded Robot
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-lang
subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn
subjects: comp-sci-robot
full_text_status: public
keywords: robotic langauge acquisition, perceptually grounded robot, developmental learning
abstract: The objective of this research is to develop a system for language learning based on a minimum of pre-wired language-specific functionality, that is compatible with observations of perceptual and language capabilities in the human developmental trajectory. In the proposed system, meaning (in terms of descriptions of events and spatial relations) is extracted from video images based on detection of position, motion, physical contact and their parameters. Mapping of sentence form to meaning is performed by learning grammatical constructions that are retrieved from a construction inventory based on the constellation of closed class items uniquely identifying the target sentence structure. The resulting system displays robust acquisition behavior that reproduces certain observations from developmental studies, with very modest “innate” language specificity.
date: 2004
date_type: published
volume: 117
publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
pagerange: 43-50
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Dominey, Peter Ford and Boucher, Jean-David  (2004) Developmental Stages of Perception and Language Acquisition in a Perceptually Grounded Robot.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/4060/1/dominey.pdf