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    Luc Steels: Can Robots invent their own language?

    Published on Jan 19, 2015

    For more than a decade we have been doing robotic experiments to understand how language could originate in a population of embodied agents. This has resulted in various fundamental mechanisms for the self-organisation of vocabularies, the co-evolution of words and meanings, and the emergence of grammar. It has also lead to a number of technological advances in language processing technologies, in particular a new grammar formalism called Fluid Construction Grammar, that attempts to formalise and capture insights from construction grammar, and a new scheme for doing grounded semantics on robots.

    This talk gives a (very brief) overview of our approach and discusses some details of the technical spin-offs that have come out of this work. The talk is illustrated with live software demos and videos of robots playing language games. The talk ends with a number of open problems and issues that we need to tackle before having adaptive open-ended language communication between humans and robots.

    Luc Steels - ICREA/IBE, Barcelona - Sony CSL Paris

    Luc Steels studied linguistics at the University of Antwerp (Belgium) and computer science at MIT. After working in the domain of expert systems for geophysical data interpretation at Schlumberger, he founded in 1983 the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory of the Free University of Brussels (VUB). There he worked with his students on many topics of AI, ranging from knowledge engineering and machine learning to computational linguistics and robotics. In 1996 Steels founded the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris which he directed until april 2014. This laboratory has made many contributions to developmental robotics, musical creativity, and computational linguistics. At the moment he is ICREA research professor at the Institut de Biologia Evolutiva in Barcelona (UPF-CSIC) working on the evolution of language.

    Steels is a member of the European Academy of Science, the New York Academy and the Royal Academy of Science of Belgium. His publications include a dozen books and hundreds of papers in top level journals, such as (Nature Physics, BBS, AI Journal, Trends in Cognitive Science, etc.)

    Soon a re-edition of his 'Talking Heads Experiment' book will appear with the Language Science Press (Berlin).

    The A-Talks are gathering world-reknowned experts in fields related to robotics & AI, presenting ground breaking ideas in various domain from robotics and computer science, to psychology, language or social sciences. We want to bring to the audience fresh new ideas, just beyond the level of popular science into the real core of today's top most advanced research in the field. Our ambition is that if you listen to an A-Talk, there is a good chance you'll hear ideas that you've never heard before!
    Languages AI and robots studies by Luc Steels

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