Adaptive acquisition of spoken language

  • Authors:
  • A. L. Gorin;S. E. Levinson;A. N. Gertner

  • Affiliations:
  • AT& T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA;AT& T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA;AT& T Bell Labs., Murray Hill, NJ, USA

  • Venue:
  • ICASSP '91 Proceedings of the Acoustics, Speech, and Signal Processing, 1991. ICASSP-91., 1991 International Conference
  • Year:
  • 1991

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Abstract

The problem of building a device that acquires language during the course of performing its task, called learning by doing, is considered. Some basic principles and mechanisms upon which such a device might be constructed are described. In particular, a language acquisition mechanism that is based upon the intuition of building associations between messages and appropriate responses to them and a mechanism for human-machine interaction based on control theory methods are investigated. A conversational-mode system that demonstrates and evaluates the proposed principles and mechanisms is described. Experimental results that validate the approach are reported.