Ebook: Integration of Natural Language and Vision Processing: Theory and Grounding Representations Volume III

Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP), there has heretofore been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This book contains a set of edited papers addressing theoretical issues and the grounding of representations in NLP and VP from philosophical and psychological points of view. The papers focus on site descriptions such as the reasoning work on space at Leeds, UK, the systems work of the ILS (Illinois, U.S.A.) and philosophical work on grounding at Torino, Italy, on Schank's earlier work on pragmatics and meaning incorporated into hypermedia teaching systems, Wilks' visions on metaphor, on experimental data for how people fuse language and vision and theories and computational models, mainly connectionist, for tackling Searle's Chinese Room Problem and Harnad's Symbol Grounding Problem. The Irish Room is introduced as a mechanism through which integration solves the Chinese Room. The U.S.A., China and the EU are well reflected, showing the fact that integration is a truly international issue. There is no doubt that all of this will be necessary for the SuperInformationHighways of the future.

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Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP), there has heretofore been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This book contains a set of edited papers addressing theoretical issues and the grounding of representations in NLP and VP from philosophical and psychological points of view. The papers focus on site descriptions such as the reasoning work on space at Leeds, UK, the systems work of the ILS (Illinois, U.S.A.) and philosophical work on grounding at Torino, Italy, on Schank's earlier work on pragmatics and meaning incorporated into hypermedia teaching systems, Wilks' visions on metaphor, on experimental data for how people fuse language and vision and theories and computational models, mainly connectionist, for tackling Searle's Chinese Room Problem and Harnad's Symbol Grounding Problem. The Irish Room is introduced as a mechanism through which integration solves the Chinese Room. The U.S.A., China and the EU are well reflected, showing the fact that integration is a truly international issue. There is no doubt that all of this will be necessary for the SuperInformationHighways of the future.

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Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP), there has heretofore been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This book contains a set of edited papers addressing theoretical issues and the grounding of representations in NLP and VP from philosophical and psychological points of view. The papers focus on site descriptions such as the reasoning work on space at Leeds, UK, the systems work of the ILS (Illinois, U.S.A.) and philosophical work on grounding at Torino, Italy, on Schank's earlier work on pragmatics and meaning incorporated into hypermedia teaching systems, Wilks' visions on metaphor, on experimental data for how people fuse language and vision and theories and computational models, mainly connectionist, for tackling Searle's Chinese Room Problem and Harnad's Symbol Grounding Problem. The Irish Room is introduced as a mechanism through which integration solves the Chinese Room. The U.S.A., China and the EU are well reflected, showing the fact that integration is a truly international issue. There is no doubt that all of this will be necessary for the SuperInformationHighways of the future.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-8
Ongoing Research Projects at the Institute for the Learning Sciences....Pages 9-12
A Logical Approach to Representing and Reasoning About Space....Pages 13-17
Memory and Expectations in Learning, Language, and Visual Understanding....Pages 19-29
Language, Vision and Metaphor....Pages 31-47
Language and Vision: A Single Perceptual Mechanism?....Pages 49-61
Sandy Ideas and Coloured Days: Some Computational Implications of Embodiment....Pages 63-80
A Comparison of Models for Fusion of the Auditory and Visual Sensors in Speech Perception....Pages 81-104
Visible Speech Improves Human Language Understanding: Implications for Speech Processing Systems....Pages 105-116
Work on the Integration of Language and Vision at the University of Torino....Pages 117-122
On the Referential Competence of Some Machines....Pages 123-137
Understanding Language through Vision....Pages 139-150
From Chinese Rooms to Irish Rooms: New Words on Visions for Language....Pages 151-165
Grounding Computational Engines....Pages 167-184
Successful Na?ve Representation Grounding....Pages 185-204
L0 — The First Five Years of an Automated Language Acquisition Project....Pages 205-231
Grounding Symbols into Perceptions....Pages 233-248
Book Review....Pages 249-255

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Although there has been much progress in developing theories, models and systems in the areas of Natural Language Processing (NLP) and Vision Processing (VP), there has heretofore been little progress on integrating these two subareas of Artificial Intelligence (AI). This book contains a set of edited papers addressing theoretical issues and the grounding of representations in NLP and VP from philosophical and psychological points of view. The papers focus on site descriptions such as the reasoning work on space at Leeds, UK, the systems work of the ILS (Illinois, U.S.A.) and philosophical work on grounding at Torino, Italy, on Schank's earlier work on pragmatics and meaning incorporated into hypermedia teaching systems, Wilks' visions on metaphor, on experimental data for how people fuse language and vision and theories and computational models, mainly connectionist, for tackling Searle's Chinese Room Problem and Harnad's Symbol Grounding Problem. The Irish Room is introduced as a mechanism through which integration solves the Chinese Room. The U.S.A., China and the EU are well reflected, showing the fact that integration is a truly international issue. There is no doubt that all of this will be necessary for the SuperInformationHighways of the future.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-8
Ongoing Research Projects at the Institute for the Learning Sciences....Pages 9-12
A Logical Approach to Representing and Reasoning About Space....Pages 13-17
Memory and Expectations in Learning, Language, and Visual Understanding....Pages 19-29
Language, Vision and Metaphor....Pages 31-47
Language and Vision: A Single Perceptual Mechanism?....Pages 49-61
Sandy Ideas and Coloured Days: Some Computational Implications of Embodiment....Pages 63-80
A Comparison of Models for Fusion of the Auditory and Visual Sensors in Speech Perception....Pages 81-104
Visible Speech Improves Human Language Understanding: Implications for Speech Processing Systems....Pages 105-116
Work on the Integration of Language and Vision at the University of Torino....Pages 117-122
On the Referential Competence of Some Machines....Pages 123-137
Understanding Language through Vision....Pages 139-150
From Chinese Rooms to Irish Rooms: New Words on Visions for Language....Pages 151-165
Grounding Computational Engines....Pages 167-184
Successful Na?ve Representation Grounding....Pages 185-204
L0 — The First Five Years of an Automated Language Acquisition Project....Pages 205-231
Grounding Symbols into Perceptions....Pages 233-248
Book Review....Pages 249-255
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