Learning Word Groundings from Humans Facilitated by Robot Emotional Displays
David McNeill,
Casey Kennington
Abstract:In working towards accomplishing a humanlevel acquisition and understanding of language, a robot must meet two requirements: the ability to learn words from interactions with its physical environment, and the ability to learn language from people in settings for language use, such as spoken dialogue. In a live interactive study, we test the hypothesis that emotional displays are a viable solution to the cold-start problem of how to communicate without relying on language the robot does not-indeed, cannot-yet k… Show more
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