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 distribu...
A spoken language generation system has been developed that learns to describe objects in computer-generated visual scenes. The system is trained by a `show-and-tell' procedu...
Abstract. Solutions to the symbol grounding problem, in psychologically plausible cognitive models, have been based on hybrid connectionist/symbolic architectures, on robotic appro...
Abstract. Over the past five years, the topic of the origins of language is gaining prominence as one of the big unresolved questions of cognitive science. Artificial Intelligenc...
The authors present TWIG, a visually grounded wordlearning system that uses its existing knowledge of vocabulary, grammar, and action schemas to help it learn the meanings of new ...