Sebastian Hofer
2012
Emergent action language on real robotsPDF
Language Grounding in Robots:, pages 255--276, 2012
Almost all languages in the world have a way to formulate commands. Commands specify actions that the body should undertake (such as “stand up”), possibly involving other objects in the scene (such as “pick up the red block”). Action language involves various ...
2011
Proceedings of the Twenty-Second International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Pages, pages 61--66, 2011
Grammatical agreement is present in many of the world's languages today and has become an essential feature that guides linguistic processing. When two words in a sentence are said to "agree", this means that they share certain features such as "gender", "number", "person" or ...MORE ⇓
Grammatical agreement is present in many of the world's languages today and has become an essential feature that guides linguistic processing. When two words in a sentence are said to "agree", this means that they share certain features such as "gender", "number", "person" or others. The primary hypothesis of this paper is that marking agreement within one linguistic phrase reduces processing effort as phrasal constituents can more easily be recognized. The drive to reduce processing effort introduces the rise of agreement marking in a population of multiple agents by means of an incrementally aligned mapping between the most discriminatory features of a particular linguistic unit and their associative markers. A series of experiments compare feature selection methods for one-to-one agreement mappings, and show how an agreement system can be bootstrapped.