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Language Learning for the Autonomous Mental Development of Conversational Agents

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Neural Information Processing (ICONIP 2006)

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Since the manual construction of our knowledge-base has several crucial limitations when applied to intelligent systems, mental development has been investigated in recent years. Autonomous mental development is a new paradigm for developing autonomous machines, which are adaptive and flexible to the environment. Language development, a kind of mental development, is an important aspect of intelligent conversational agents. In this paper, we propose an intelligent conversational agent and its language development mechanism by putting together five promising techniques; Bayesian networks, pattern matching, finite state machines, templates, and genetic programming. Knowledge acquisition implemented by finite state machines and templates, and language learning by genetic programming are developed for language development. Several illustrations and usability tests show the usefulness of the proposed developmental conversational agent.

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science, Yonsei University, 134 Sinchon-dong, Sudaemoon-ku, Seoul, 120-749, Korea

    Jin-Hyuk Hong, Sungsoo Lim & Sung-Bae Cho

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  1. Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese Univ. of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

    Irwin King

  2. Department of Mechanical and Automation Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong, New Territories,, China

    Jun Wang

  3. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong

    Lai-Wan Chan

  4. Department of Computer Science and Engineering & Center for Cognitive Science, The Ohio State University, OH 43210, Columbus

    DeLiang Wang

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Hong, JH., Lim, S., Cho, SB. (2006). Language Learning for the Autonomous Mental Development of Conversational Agents. In: King, I., Wang, J., Chan, LW., Wang, D. (eds) Neural Information Processing. ICONIP 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4234. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11893295_98

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