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UK funding (2 114 768 £) : eTALK incarne la pensée pour la connaissance abstraite du langage Ukri26/06/2024 UK Research and Innovation, Royaume Uni
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eTALK incarne la pensée pour la connaissance abstraite du langage
| Abstract | Language is the most natural means of communication among people, as well as for interaction between people and robots. As the great majority of words people use are abstract words, to achieve natural language interaction with robots it is crucial that machines can handle both concrete and abstract concepts. This timely project strategically builds on the recent, substantial advances in developmental psychology and embodied cognition theories on abstract concepts, on developmental robotics and AI methods for cognitive modelling, and in human-robot interaction and language use, to bootstrap our scientific and technological understanding of the grounding of abstract concepts and words in robotic agents. The project will develop and test a novel cognitive developmental architecture utilising the latest generative deep learning models and developmental robotics methods for human-robot interaction experiments on the learning of concrete and abstract words via grounding transfer. Three case studies have been strategically planned to show the breadth and robustness of the proposed approach, and to demonstrate the flexibility of the computational approach in dealing with various types of abstract concepts. The case studies focus on: (i) abstract word grounding for perceptual, motor and affective concepts, (ii) number word learning, and (iii) function words for demonstrative (deictic) prepositions, words about time and fuzzy quantifiers. This project will lead to breakthroughs in our deeper understanding of the computational approaches to the grounding and embodiment bases of language and cognition and in the design of humanoid robots which can learn to understand, and act on, conversations about a variety of abstract words, as these are intrinsically grounded in their own sensorimotor experience. The project will benefit from direct engagement with users and stakeholders of the application domains, as well as from the international advisors from both academia and industry. |
| Category | Research Grant |
| Reference | EP/Y029534/1 |
| Status | Active |
| Funded period start | 26/06/2024 |
| Funded period end | 25/06/2029 |
| Funded value | £2 114 768,00 |
| Source | https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=EP%2FY029534%2F1 |
Participating Organisations
| University of Manchester | |
| National Research Council | |
| Italian Institute of Technology (Istituto Italiano di Tecnologia IIT) |
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