Language acquisition through a human-robot interface by combining speech, visual, and behavioral information

Information Sciences

Volumn 156, Issue 1-2, 2003, Pages 109-121

  Iwahashi, Naoto ^a  

^a SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORIES INC   (Japan)

Author keywords

Behavior; Language acquisition; Robot; Speech; Vision

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; LINGUISTICS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; PROBABILITY; ROBOTICS; USER INTERFACES; VISION;

LANGUAGE ACQUISITION;

SPEECH PROCESSING;

EID: 0141865695     PISSN: 00200255     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0020-0255(03)00167-1     Document Type: Article

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