Jean-Christophe Baillie
2005
Dynamic Evolution of Language Games between two Autonomous RobotsPDF
IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning, 2005
The 'Talking Robots' experiment, inspired by the 'Talking Heads' experiment from Sony, explores possibilities on how to ground symbols into perception. We present here the first results of this experiment and outline a possible extension to social behaviors grounding: the purpose ...MORE ⇓
The 'Talking Robots' experiment, inspired by the 'Talking Heads' experiment from Sony, explores possibilities on how to ground symbols into perception. We present here the first results of this experiment and outline a possible extension to social behaviors grounding: the purpose is to have the robots develop not only a lexicon but also the interaction protocol, or language game, that they use to create the lexicon. This raises several complex problems that we review here.
2004
Evolutionary Fitness, Homophony and Disambiguation through Sequential ProcessesPDF
First International Workshop on the Emergence and Evolution of Linguistic Communication, pages 27-32, 2004
Abstract Human language may have evolved through a stage when words were combined into structured linear segments, before these segments were used as building blocks for a hierarchical grammar. Experiments using information theoretic metrics show that such a ...
2003
Robotics and Autonomous Systems 43(2-3):163-173, 2003
The paper describes a system for open-ended communication by autonomous robots about event descriptions anchored in reality through the robot's sensori-motor apparatus. The events are dynamic and agents must continually track changing situations at multiple levels of detail ...MORE ⇓
The paper describes a system for open-ended communication by autonomous robots about event descriptions anchored in reality through the robot's sensori-motor apparatus. The events are dynamic and agents must continually track changing situations at multiple levels of detail through their vision system. We are specifically concerned with the question how grounding can become shared through the use of external (symbolic) representations, such as natural language expressions.