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Acquiring a Functionally Compositional System of Goal-Directed Actions of a Simulated Agent
Yuuya Sugita,Jun Tani +1 more
- pp 331-341
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A sub-symbolic connectionist model in which a functionally compositional system self-organizes by learning a provided set of goal-directed actions is proposed, potentially explaining a possible continuous process underlying the transitions from rote knowledge to systematized knowledge.Abstract:
We propose a sub-symbolic connectionist model in which a functionally compositional system self-organizes by learning a provided set of goal-directed actions. This approach is compatible with an idea taken from usage-based accounts of the developmental learning of language, especially one theory of infants' acquisition process of symbols. The presented model potentially explains a possible continuous process underlying the transitions from rote knowledge to systematized knowledge by drawing an analogy to the formation process of a geometric regular arrangement of points. Based on the experimental results, the essential underlying process is discussed.read more
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Constructing a language: A usage-based theory of language acquisition
TL;DR: In “Constructing a Language,” Tomasello presents a contrasting theory of how the child acquires language: It is not a universal grammar that allows for language development, but two sets of cognitive skills resulting from biological/phylogenetic adaptations are fundamental to the ontogenetic origins of language.
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An Experiment on Behavior Generalization and the Emergence of Linguistic Compositionality in Evolving Robots
TL;DR: The comparison between two experimental conditions, in one of which the agents are required to ignore rather than to indicate objects, shows that the composition of the behavioral set significantly influences the development of compositional semantic structures.
Emergence of communication and language in evolving robots
TL;DR: This chapter illustrates how communication systems originate and evolve in a population of robots that adapt to a given task/environment and analysis of these synthetic experiments can help understand.
ITALK - Integration and Transfer of Action and Language Knowledge in Robots
Angelo Cangelosi,Tony Belpaeme,Anthony F. Morse,Davide Marocco,Martin Peniak,Christopher Larcombe,Giorgio Metta,Giulio Sandini,Luciano Fadiga,Francesco Nori,Lorenzo Natale,Vadim Tikhanoff,Arjan Gijsberts,Alessandra Sciutti,Gerhard Sagerer,Britta Wrede,Katharina J. Rohlfing,Lars Schillingmann,Karola Pitsch,Katrin Solveig Lohan,Stefano Nolfi,Elio Tuci,Gianluca Massera,Tomassino Ferrauto,G. Morlino,Chrystopher L. Nehaniv,Kerstin Dautenhahn,Caroline Lyon,Joe Saunders,F. Foester,Yo Sato,Kerstin Fischer,Arne Zeschel,Jun Tani +33 more
TL;DR: Whether a robot can be treated similar to an infant in an interaction is raised and the results confirm previous findings concerning the differences between ACI, AAI, and ARI and constitute an important empirical basis for making use of ostensive stimuli as social signals for tutoring behavior in social robotics.
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Simulation tools for the study of the interaction between communication and action in cognitive robots
TL;DR: A series of experiments that involve simulated humanoid robots that acquire their behavioural and language skills autonomously through a trial-and-error adaptive process in which random variations of the free parameters of the robots’ controller are retained or discarded on the basis of their effect on the overall behaviour exhibited by the robot in interaction with the environment.
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The symbol grounding problem
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Constructing a Language: A Usage-Based Theory of Language Acquisition
TL;DR: The authors argue that the essence of language is its symbolic dimension, which rests on the uniquely human ability to comprehend intention, and that children pick up these patterns in the buzz of words they hear around them.
Constructing a language: A usage-based theory of language acquisition
TL;DR: In “Constructing a Language,” Tomasello presents a contrasting theory of how the child acquires language: It is not a universal grammar that allows for language development, but two sets of cognitive skills resulting from biological/phylogenetic adaptations are fundamental to the ontogenetic origins of language.
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Compositionality: A Connectionist Variation on a Classical Theme
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that Connectionist representations can be compositional without being classical, and further, that Fodor and Pylyshyn's supposedly conclusive arguments in favor of the classical approach do not in fact support that approach over the Connectionist alternative.
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