Approaches to grounding symbols in perceptual and sensorimotor categories

A Cangelosi - Handbook of categorization in cognitive science, 2005 - Elsevier
This chapter presents the Cognitive Symbol Grounding framework for the grounding of
language into perception, cognition and action. This approach is characterized by the …

Grounding symbols in sensorimotor categories with neural networks

S Harnad - … : Integration of Sensory Information in Natural …, 1995 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The symbol grounding problem is: how can you ground the meanings of symbols
autonomously, ie without the mediation of external interpretation? One solution to the …

Connecting object to symbol in modelling cognition

S Harnad - Connectionism in context, 1992 - Springer
Connectionism and computationalism are currently vying for hegemony in cognitive
modelling. At first glance the opposition seems incoherent, because connectionism is itself …

On the importance of a rich embodiment in the grounding of concepts: Perspectives from embodied cognitive science and computational linguistics

S Thill, S Padó, T Ziemke - Topics in Cognitive Science, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The recent trend in cognitive robotics experiments on language learning, symbol grounding,
and related issues necessarily entails a reduction of sensorimotor aspects from those …

The grounding and sharing of symbols

A Cangelosi - … distributed: how cognitive technology extends our …, 2008 - torrossa.com
The double function of language, as a social/communicative means, and as an
individual/cognitive capability, derives from its fundamental property that allows us to …

The physical symbol grounding problem

P Vogt - Cognitive Systems Research, 2002 - Elsevier
This paper presents an approach to solve the symbol grounding problem within the
framework of embodied cognitive science. It will be argued that symbolic structures can be …

[PDF][PDF] Grounding language in descriptions of scenes

P Williams, R Miikkulainen - … of the 8th Annual Conference of the …, 2006 - cs.utexas.edu
The problem of how abstract symbols, such as those in systems of natural language, may be
grounded in perceptual information presents a significant challenge to several areas of …

[PDF][PDF] On the foundations of perceptual symbol systems: Specifying embodied representations via connectionism

D Joyce, L Richards, A Cangelosi… - The logic of cognitive …, 2003 - Citeseer
Embodied theories of cognition propose that symbol systems are analogue (eg Barsalou,
1999; Glenberg, 1997), as opposed to the classicist view that they are amodal eg Newell …

Evolving conceptual spaces for symbol grounding in language games

SM de Paula, RR Gudwin - Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures, 2015 - Elsevier
A standard approach in the simulation of language evolution is the use of Language Games
to model communicative interactions between intelligent agents. Usually, in such language …

[图书][B] Understanding representation in the cognitive sciences: does representation need reality?

A Riegler, M Peschl, A von Stein - 1999 - Springer
The first papers address the epistemological status of representation and possible
categorizations. These rather general considerations about representation are followed by …