Language and Learning for Robots (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)

By Colleen Crangle and Patrick C. Suppes

Book Overview

Robot technology will find wide-scale use only when a robotic device can be given commands and taught new tasks in a natural language. How could a robot understand instructions expressed in English? How could a robot learn from instructions? Crangle and Suppes begin to answer these questions through a theoretical approach to language and learning for robots, and by experimental work with robots. The authors develop the notion of an instructable robot - one which derives its intelligence in part from interaction with humans. Since verbal interaction with a robot requires a natural language semantics, the authors propose a natural-model semantics which they then apply to the interpretation of robot commands. Two experimental projects are described which provide natural-language interfaces to robotic aids for the physically disabled.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1881526194
• ISBN13: 9781881526193
• Release Date: November 1994
• Publisher: Center for the Study of Language and Informat
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"