Why Would a Robot Make Use of Pronouns? An Evolutionary Investigation of the Emergence of Pronominal Anaphora
D. Cristea, E. Dima, and C. Dima. Anaphora Processing and Applications, page 1--14. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, (2009)
Abstract
We investigate whether and in what conditions pronominal anaphora could be acquired by intelligent agents as a means to express recently mentioned entities. The use of pronouns is conditioned by the existence of a memory recording the object previously in focus. The approach follows an evolutionary paradigm of language acquisition. Experiments show that pronouns can be easily included in a vocabulary of a community of 10 agents dialoguing on a static scene and that, generally, they enhance the communication success.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 10.1007/978-3-642-04975-0_1
%A Cristea, Dan
%A Dima, Emanuel
%A Dima, Corina
%B Anaphora Processing and Applications
%C Berlin, Heidelberg
%D 2009
%E Lalitha Devi, Sobha
%E Branco, António
%E Mitkov, Ruslan
%I Springer Berlin Heidelberg
%K imported myown
%P 1--14
%T Why Would a Robot Make Use of Pronouns? An Evolutionary Investigation of the Emergence of Pronominal Anaphora
%X We investigate whether and in what conditions pronominal anaphora could be acquired by intelligent agents as a means to express recently mentioned entities. The use of pronouns is conditioned by the existence of a memory recording the object previously in focus. The approach follows an evolutionary paradigm of language acquisition. Experiments show that pronouns can be easily included in a vocabulary of a community of 10 agents dialoguing on a static scene and that, generally, they enhance the communication success.
%@ 978-3-642-04975-0
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title = {Why Would a Robot Make Use of Pronouns? An Evolutionary Investigation of the Emergence of Pronominal Anaphora},
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