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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136403003321

Autore

Vogt Paul

Titolo

How mobile robots can self-organise a vocabulary [[electronic resource] /] / Paul Vogt

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Language Science Press, 2015

Berlin, Germany : , : Language Science Press, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-946234-01-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 270 pages) : illustrations; digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Computational Models of Language Evolution ; ; volume 2

Disciplina

402.85

Soggetti

Symbol grounding

Language acquisition - Data processing

Artificial intelligence

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from OAPEN webpage (viewed on 23 November 2017).

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium, 2000.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface --Acknowledgements --1. Introduction --2. The sensorimotor component --3. Language games --4. Experimental results --5. Varying methods and parameters --6. The optimal games --7. Discussion --Appendix A: Glossary --Appendix B: PDL code --Appendix C: Sensory data distribution --Appendix D: Lexicon and ontology --References --Indexes.

Sommario/riassunto

One of the hardest problems in science is the symbol grounding problem, a question that has intrigued philosophers and linguists for more than a century. With the rise of artificial intelligence, the question has become very actual, especially within the field of robotics. The problem is that an agent, be it a robot or a human, perceives the world in analogue signals. Yet humans have the ability to categorise the world in symbols that they, for instance, may use for language. This book presents a series of experiments in which two robots try to solve the symbol grounding problem. The experiments are based on the language game paradigm, and involve real mobile robots that are able to develop a grounded lexicon about the objects that they can detect in



their world. Crucially, neither the lexicon nor the ontology of the robots has been preprogrammed, so the experiments demonstrate how a population of embodied language users can develop their own vocabularies from scratch.