Utilizing Natural Language for One-Shot Task Learning

  • Authors:
  • Hyuckchul Jung;James Allen;Lucian Galescu;Nathanael Chambers;Mary Swift;William Taysom

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Logic and Computation
  • Year:
  • 2008

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

Learning tasks from a single demonstration presents a significant challenge because the observed sequence is specific to the current situation and is inherently an incomplete representation of the procedure. Observation-based machine-learning techniques are not effective without multiple examples. However, when a demonstration is accompanied by natural language explanation, the language provides a rich source of information about the relationships between the steps in the procedure and the decision-making processes that led to them. In this article, we present a one-shot task learning system built on TRIPS, a dialogue-based collaborative problem solving system, and show how natural language understanding can be used for effective one-shot task learning.