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abstract: 'Grounding symbolic representations in perception is a key and difficult issue for artificial intelligence. The ”Talking Heads” experiment (Steels and Kaplan, 2002) explores an interesting coupling between grounding and social learning of language. In the first version of this experiment, two cameras were interacting in a simplified visual environment made of colored shapes on a white board and they developed a shared, grounded lexicon. We present here the beginning of a new experiment which is an extension of the original one with two autonomous robots instead of two cameras and a complex and unconstrained visual environment. We review the difficulties raised specifically by the embodiment of the agents and propose some directions to address these questions.'
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confdates: 'August 25-27, 2004'
conference: 'Fourth International Workshop on Epigenetic Robotics: Modeling Cognitive Development in Robotic Systems'
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  - family: Kozima
    given: Hideki
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  - family: Prince
    given: Christopher G.
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  - family: Sandini
    given: Giulio
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  - family: Stojanov
    given: Georgi
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  - family: Metta
    given: Giorgio
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  - family: Balkenius
    given: Christian
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keywords: 'symbolic representation, symbol grounding, social language learning, autonomous robots, embodied agents'
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publisher: Lund University Cognitive Studies
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rev_number: 12
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status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:55:16
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title: Grounding Symbols in Perception with two Interacting Autonomous Robots
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volume: 117
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