Stevan Harnad’s scientific contributions

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Symbol Grounding Problem
  • Conference Paper

December 2003

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Stevan Harnad

The Symbol Grounding Problem is related to the problem of how words get their meanings, and of what meanings are. The problem of meaning is in turn related to the problem of consciousness, or how it is that mental states are meaningful.

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... To solve such tasks, the robot can engage in the embodied conversation with the instructor to learn online how to recognise unforeseen concepts by interactively grounding new symbols. Compared to traditional symbol grounding (Harnad 1999), this introduces two challenges. First, learning must be incremental and should occur as and when the instructor says something. ...

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SECURE: Semantics-aware Embodied Conversation under Unawareness for Lifelong Robot Learning
Symbol Grounding Problem
  • Citing Conference Paper
  • December 2003