Playing with Embeddings : Evaluating embeddings for Robot Language Learning through MUD Games

Anmol Gulati, Kumar Krishna Agrawal


Abstract
Acquiring language provides a ubiquitous mode of communication, across humans and robots. To this effect, distributional representations of words based on co-occurrence statistics, have provided significant advancements ranging across machine translation to comprehension. In this paper, we study the suitability of using general purpose word-embeddings for language learning in robots. We propose using text-based games as a proxy to evaluating word embedding on real robots. Based in a risk-reward setting, we review the effectiveness of the embeddings in navigating tasks in fantasy games, as an approximation to their performance on more complex scenarios, like language assisted robot navigation.
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W17-5305
Volume:
Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP
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September
Year:
2017
Address:
Copenhagen, Denmark
Editors:
Samuel Bowman, Yoav Goldberg, Felix Hill, Angeliki Lazaridou, Omer Levy, Roi Reichart, Anders Søgaard
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RepEval
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
27–30
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/W17-5305
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W17-5305
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Anmol Gulati and Kumar Krishna Agrawal. 2017. Playing with Embeddings : Evaluating embeddings for Robot Language Learning through MUD Games. In Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Evaluating Vector Space Representations for NLP, pages 27–30, Copenhagen, Denmark. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Playing with Embeddings : Evaluating embeddings for Robot Language Learning through MUD Games (Gulati & Agrawal, RepEval 2017)
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