Using context and sensory data to learn first and second person pronouns

HRI 2006: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 110-117

  Gold, Kevin ^a   Scassellati, Brian ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

Autism; Deixis; Humanoid robot; Natural language; Pronoun reversal; Pronouns; Real time; Word learning

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; WORD PROCESSING;

DEIXIS; NATURAL LANGUAGE; PRONOUN REVERSAL; PRONOUNS; REAL-TIME; WORD LEARNING;

LEARNING SYSTEMS;

EID: 33745622566     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121241.1121262     Document Type: Conference Paper

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