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Dealing with Perceptual Deviation: Vague Semantics for Spatial Language and Quantification

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Grounding language in sensorimotor spaces is an important and difficult task. In order, for robots to be able to interpret and produce utterances about the real world, they have to link symbolic information to continuous perceptual spaces. This requires dealing with inherent vagueness, noise and differences in perspective in the perception of the real world. This paper presents two case studies for spatial language and quantification that show how cognitive operations – the building blocks of grounded procedural semantics – can be efficiently grounded in sensorimotor spaces.

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  1. Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Paris, France

    Michael Spranger

  2. Systems Technology Laboratory, Sony Corporation, Minato-ku, Tokyo, Japan

    Michael Spranger

  3. ILLC, University of Amsterdam, Science Park 904, 1098 XH, Amsterdam, Netherlands

    Simon Pauw

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Spranger, M., Pauw, S. (2012). Dealing with Perceptual Deviation: Vague Semantics for Spatial Language and Quantification. In: Steels, L., Hild, M. (eds) Language Grounding in Robots. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3064-3_9

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