Title :
Robot acquisition of lexical meaning - moving towards the two-word stage
Author :
Saunders, John ; Lehmann, Hartmut ; Forster, Frederike ; Nehaniv, Chrystopher L.
Author_Institution :
Adaptive Syst. Res. Group, Univ. of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK
Abstract :
We report on experiments and analyses dealing with the acquisition of lexical meaning in which prosodic analysis and extraction of salient words are associated with a robots sensorimotor perceptions in an attempt to ground these words in the robots own embodied sensorimotor experience. We focus here on three key areas, the selection of salient words based on prosodic clues, expression of words by the robot at a two-word stage to reflect learning and grammatically correct presentation, and an in-depth analysis of the relationship between words and the robots sensorimotor perceptions.
Keywords :
human-robot interaction; humanoid robots; speech processing; human-robot interaction; humanoid robot; lexical meaning acquisition; prosodic analysis; prosodic clue; robot sensorimotor perception; salient word extraction; salient word selection; two-word stage; Color; Feature extraction; Humans; Robot sensing systems; Shape; Speech;
Conference_Titel :
Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL), 2012 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4964-2
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4673-4963-5
DOI :
10.1109/DevLrn.2012.6400588
