TY - GEN
T1 - Learning word groundings from humans facilitated by robot emotional displays
AU - McNeill, David
AU - Kennington, Casey
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2020/7/1
Y1 - 2020/7/1
N2 - 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 know. We explain our modular system that can autonomously learn word groundings through interaction and show through a user study with 21 participants that emotional displays improve the quantity and quality of the inputs provided to the robot.
AB - 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 know. We explain our modular system that can autonomously learn word groundings through interaction and show through a user study with 21 participants that emotional displays improve the quantity and quality of the inputs provided to the robot.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85108237164
UR - https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/cs_facpubs/254
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - SIGDIAL 2020 - 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference
SP - 97
EP - 106
BT - SIGDIAL 2020 - 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Conference
T2 - 21st Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, SIGDIAL 2020
Y2 - 1 July 2020 through 3 July 2020
ER -