Flexible word meaning in embodied agents

Connection Science

Volumn 20, Issue 2-3, 2008, Pages 173-191

  Wellens, Peter ^a   Loetzsch, Martin ^b   Steels, Luc ^a,b  

^a FREE UNIVERSITY OF BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b SONY COMPUTER SCIENCE LABORATORY   (France)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Language games; Lexicon acquisition; Multi agent simulations; Referential uncertainty; Word learning

Indexed keywords

EMBODIMENT; LANGUAGE GAMES; LEXICON ACQUISITION; MULTI AGENT SIMULATION; REFERENTIAL UNCERTAINTY; WORD LEARNING;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS;

AUDITION;

EID: 46249116449     PISSN: 09540091     EISSN: 13600494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/09540090802091966     Document Type: Article

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