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Sabah, G. and Popescu-Belis, A. (1999) Experiments in language acquisition by artificial systems. In Actes MIND-4. Dublin, Ireland.
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EXPERIMENTS IN LANGUAGE ACQUISITION
BY ARTIFICIAL SYSTEMS
Gérard Sabah, Andrei Popescu­Belis
Language and Cognition Group --- LIMSI
B.P. 133
91403 ORSAY Cedex --- FRANCE
Abstract This paper presents some aspects related to natural language acquisition in our CARAMEL architecture. The CARAMEL model emphasises, at a global level, the importance of both ``conscious'' and ``unconscious'' processes for natural language understanding, drawing inspiration from theoretical work by Harth, Baars and especially Edelman. Three experiments on language grounding are described: prerequisites to language for an agent in its environment; evolution of syntactic conventions between agents; and conceptual bootstrapping for an agent exposed to language.
1. Introduction From our point of view, taking into account consciousness and its related aspects is of particular interest for natural language understanding. This leads us to propose a general model of reasoning and intelligence that should not only apply to natural language processing but also to reasoning and learning (since from our point of view, true understanding cannot be isolated from acquisition); this model should explain how authentic semantics, or symbol grounding, can appear in a given mind. Our model is named CARAMEL --- in French: Conscience, Automatismes, Réflexivité et Apprentissage pour un Modèle de l'Esprit et du Langage, or in English: Consciousness, Automatic processes, Reflectivity and Learning for a Model of Mind and Language (Sabah 1995, 1997a, Sabah and Briffault 1993). It shows how reflectivity and distributed artificial intelligence allow computer programs to represent their behaviour and reason about these representations in a dynamic way. Non­controlled processes appeared also to be necessary in this kind of program for computer efficiency reasons as well as for cognitive ones. Therefore, we proposed a blackboard extension --- the sketchboard (Sabah 1997b) --- which uses a different kind of relation ...
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@inproceedings{sabah99experimentsIn,
  author={Gérard Sabah and Andrei Popescu-Belis},
  title={Experiments in language acquisition by artificial systems},
  year={1999},
  address={Dublin, Ireland},
  booktitle={Actes MIND-4},
  url={http://www.isrl.uiuc.edu/~amag/langev/paper/sabah99experimentsIn.html}
}

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