The Grounding of Word Meaning: Data and Models
Papers from the AAAI Workshop
Michael Gasser, Program Chair
Technical Report WS-98-06 published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California
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Contents
Active Representations for Language Acquisition and Us / 1
David Andre, Nancy Chang, and Srini Narayanan (ICSI and UC Berkeley)
Toward a Dynamic Semantics of "HAVE A COW" / 3
Claudia Brugman and Srini Narayanan (ICSI and UC Berkeley)
A Dynamical Basis for the Semantic Content of Verbs / 5
Paul R. Cohen and Tim Oates (University of Massachusetts)
Structured Connectionist Modeling of Word Learning / 9
Jerome A. Feldman and George Lakoff (ICSI and UC Berkeley)
An Architecture for the Learning of Perceptually Grounded Word Meanings / 10
Michael Gasser and Eliana Colunga (Indiana University)
Grounding Meaning in Affordances / 12
Arthur Glenberg (University of Wisconsin)
Spatial Cognition and Spatial Language: What Do We Need to Know to Talk About Space? / 14
Barbara Landau (University of Delaware)
The CALLED Model of Early Word Learning / 16
William Merriman (Kent State University)
Attention and Population Coding in Spatial Language / 18
Terry Regier (University of Chicago), Laura Carlson-Radvansky (University of Notre Dame)
Symbol Grounding with Delay Coordinates / 20
Michael T. Rosenstein and Paul. Cohen (University of Massachusetts)
On How General Learning Processes Create Language-Specific Learning Biases / 22
Linda B. Smith, Eliana Colunga, and Larissa Samuelson (Indiana University)
Grounding the Meaning of Symbols on the System’s Experience / 23
Pei Wang (Intelligenesis Corporation)
Form and Function in Very Early Word Learning / 25
Amanda Woodward (University of Chicago)
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