Perspective alignment in spatial language
Abstract
It is well known that perspective alignment plays a major role in the planning and interpretation of spatial language. In order to understand the role of perspective alignment and the cognitive processes involved, we have made precise complete cognitive models of situated embodied agents that self-organise a communication system for dialoging about the position and movement of real world objects in their immediate surroundings. We show in a series of robotic experiments which cognitive mechanisms are necessary and sufficient to achieve successful spatial language and why and how perspective alignment can take place, either implicitly or based on explicit marking.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0605012,
title = {Perspective alignment in spatial language},
author = {L. Steels and M. Loetzsch},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0605012},
year = {2008}
}
Comments
to appear in: K. Coventry, J. Bateman, and T. Tenbrink (eds.) Spatial Language in Dialogue. Oxford University Press, 2008