Towards Language Acquisition by an Attention-Sharing Robot

Hideki Kozima, Akira Ito

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Abstract

This paper describes our preliminary research on "attention-sheiring" in infants' language acquisition. Attention-sharing is the activity of paying one's attention to someone else's attentional target. This enables one to observe others' sensory-input (what they axe perceiving from the target) and motor-output (what they are doing in response to the tau-get). Being inspired by lack of attention-sharing in autistic children, we assumed that observation of others' behavior by attention-shairing plays aa indispensable role in symbol acquisition. As a test-bed for attention-shsu-ing, we are developing a robot that can follow people's attentional targets by means of monitoring their geize-direction.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, NeMLaP/CoNLL 1998
EditorsDavid M. W. Powers
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages245-246
Number of pages2
ISBN (Electronic)0725806346, 9780725806347
Publication statusPublished - 1998
Externally publishedYes
Event1998 Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, NeMLaP/CoNLL 1998 - Sydney, Australia
Duration: 1998 Jan 111998 Jan 17

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, NeMLaP/CoNLL 1998

Conference

Conference1998 Joint Conference on New Methods in Language Processing and Computational Natural Language Learning, NeMLaP/CoNLL 1998
Country/TerritoryAustralia
CitySydney
Period98/1/1198/1/17

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • Linguistics and Language

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