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From babbling towards first words : The emergence of speech in a robot in real-time interaction
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
This paper describes a system that simulates word form acquisition without meaning as a preliminary stage in language acquisition, through interaction with a human teacher. The system extracts phonemes from the teacher's ...
Robots that say 'no'
(2011-01-01)
This paper reports on foundational considerations for experiments into the acquisition of human-like use and understanding of negation in linguistic utterances via a developmental robotics approach. For this purpose different ...
Contingency allows the robot to spot the tutor and to learn from interaction
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011-01-01)
Aiming at artificial system learning from a human tutor elicit tutoring behavior, which we implemented on the robotic platform iCub. For the evaluation of the system with users, we considered a contingency module that is ...
Towards using prosody to scaffold lexical meaning in robots
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2011)
We present a case-study analysing the prosodic contours and salient word markers of a small corpus of robot-directed speech where the human participants had been asked to talk to a socially interactive robot as if it were ...