Teaching is inherently a social interaction between teacher and student. Despite this knowledge, many educational tools, such as vocabulary training programs, still model the inte...
Martin Saerbeck, Tom Schut, Christoph Bartneck, Ma...
The Human Speechome Project is an effort to observe and computationally model the longitudinal course of language development for a single child at an unprecedented scale. The ide...
Deb Roy, Rupal Patel, Philip DeCamp, Rony Kubat, M...
Comprehending action preconditions and effects is an essential step in modeling the dynamics of the world. In this paper, we express the semantics of precondition relations extrac...
S. R. K. Branavan, Nate Kushman, Tao Lei, Regina B...
—We describe the design of an autonomous agent that can teach itself how to translate from a foreign language, by first assembling its own training set, then using it to improve...
■ Native language experience plays a critical role in shaping speech categorization, but the exact mechanisms by which it does so are not well understood. Investigating category...