Language Grounding in Robots

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xi

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2. Grounding Language through Evolutionary Language Games

   • Luc Steels

   Pages 1-22

3. Embodiment and Behavior

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 23-23

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   2. Myon, a New Humanoid

      • Manfred Hild, Torsten Siedel, Christian Benckendorff, Christian Thiele, Michael Spranger

      Pages 25-44

   3. Neural Implementation of Behavior Control

      • Matthias Kubisch, Christian Benckendorff, Benjamin Werner, Stefan Bethge, Manfred Hild

      Pages 45-66

   4. Evolving Humanoid Behaviors for Language Games

      • Frank Pasemann, Christian Rempis, Arndt von Twickel

      Pages 67-86

4. Perception

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. A Perceptual System for Language Game Experiments

      • Michael Spranger, Martin Loetzsch, Luc Steels

      Pages 89-110

   3. Posture Recognition Based on Slow Feature Analysis

      • Sebastian Höfer, Michael Spranger, Manfred Hild

      Pages 111-130

   4. Grounded Internal Body Models for Communication: Integration of Sensory and Motor Spaces for Mediating Conceptualization

      • Malte Schilling

      Pages 131-150

5. Conceptualization

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 151-151

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   2. Open-ended Procedural Semantics

      • Michael Spranger, Simon Pauw, Martin Loetzsch, Luc Steels

      Pages 153-172

   3. Dealing with Perceptual Deviation: Vague Semantics for Spatial Language and Quantification

      • Michael Spranger, Simon Pauw

      Pages 173-192

6. Language Processing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193

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   2. Fluid Construction Grammar on Real Robots

      • Luc Steels, Joachim De Beule, Pieter Wellens

      Pages 195-213

   3. Diagnostics and Repairs in Fluid Construction Grammar

      • Katrien Beuls, Remi van Trijp, Pieter Wellens

      Pages 215-234

7. Whole Systems Experiments

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 235-235

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   2. An Experiment in Temporal Language Learning

      • Kateryna Gerasymova, Michael Spranger

      Pages 237-254

   3. Emergent Action Language on Real Robots

      • Luc Steels, Michael Spranger, Remi van Trijp, Sebastian Höfer, Manfred Hild

      Pages 255-276

Written by leading international experts, this volume presents contributions establishing the feasibility of human language-like communication with robots. The book explores the use of language games for structuring situated dialogues in which contextualized language communication and language acquisition can take place. Within the text are integrated experiments demonstrating the extensive research which targets artificial language evolution. Language Grounding in Robots uses the design layers necessary to create a fully operational communicating robot as a framework for the text, focusing on the following areas:  Embodiment; Behavior; Perception and Action; Conceptualization; Language Processing; Whole Systems Experiments. This book serves as an excellent reference for researchers interested in further study of artificial language evolution.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computational Linguistics
• Evolutionary Robotics
• Human Machine Interactions
• Language Processing
• Language acquistion
• Robotics
• cultural evolution
• embodiment
• grounding
• humanoid robot
• language evolution
• neural control
• neuroscience
• whole systems approach

• Sony Computer Science Lab, Paris, France

  Luc Steels

• , Neurorobotics Research Labatory, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany

  Manfred Hild

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