Learning grounded semantics with word trees: Prepositions and pronouns

2007 IEEE 6th International Conference on Development and Learning, ICDL

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 25-30

  Gold, Kevin ^a   Doniec, Marek ^a   Scassellati, Brian ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

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[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; HELIUM; INFORMATION THEORY; ROBOTICS; SEMANTICS;

DECISION PROCESS; INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES;

HEURISTIC METHODS;

EID: 50849106063     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/DEVLRN.2007.4354049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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