The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents

The paper proposes a set of principles and a general architecture that may explain how language and meaning may originate and complexify in a group of physically grounded distributed agents. An experimental setup is introduced for concretising and validating specific mechanisms based on these principles. The setup consists of two robotic heads that watch static or dynamic scenes and engage in language games, in which one robot describes to the other what they see. The first results from experiments showing the emergence of distinctions, of a lexicon, and of primitive syntactic structures are reported.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Steels, Luc
Other Authors: Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris
Format: artículo biblioteca
Published: Elsevier 1998
Subjects:Robotic agents, Symbolic models, Origins of language and meaning,
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/128116
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