The origins of syntax in visually grounded robotic agents

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 103, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 133-156

  Steels, Luc ^a,b  

^a SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORY   (France)

^b VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Origins of language and meaning; Robotic agents; Symbolic models

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER VISION; FORMAL LANGUAGES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; ROBOTICS;

DISTRIBUTED AGENTS; ROBOTIC AGENTS; ROBOTIC HEADS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS;

EID: 0032131453     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0004-3702(98)00066-6     Document Type: Article

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