Universität Bielefeld - Sonderforschungsbereich 360
Grounded concept and lexicon formation in robotic agents
Paul Vogt
Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Vrije Universiteit Brussels
Monday, June 29th, 1998
16.15 h
Room: Hörsaal 9
This talk will discuss
interdisciplinary experiments, combining robotics and evolutionary
computational linguistics. The goal of the experiments is to investigate
if robotic agents can originate language, in particular a lexicon. The
approach is a complex dynamical one. Starting from the assumption that
the robots know how to communicate and are able to detect some sensory
information from the environment, the agents ground conceptual meaning
and a lexicon. In the experiments two robots engage in a series of
so-called language games. Doing so, they ground concepts and construct a
lexicon. The experiments show that the robots are able to form a shared
communication system.
Anke Weinberger, 1998-06-15