simple pictures, tough problems (language grounding)
Stevan Harnad
harnad at Princeton.EDU
Fri Jul 19 10:20:55 EDT 1991
Ross Gayler <ross at psych.psy.uq.oz.au> wrote:
> I would appreciate any references to more formal arguments for the
> necessity (or otherwise) of being able to manipulate the environment
> (or perceptual apparatus) in order to learn 'natural' concepts.
Try:
(1) Harnad, S. (1990) The Symbol Grounding Problem. Physica D 42: 335-346.
(2) Harnad, S., Hanson, S.J. & Lubin, J. (1991) Categorical Perception and
the Evolution of Supervised Learning in Neural Nets. Presented at
American Association for Artificial Intelligence Symposium on Symbol
Grounding: Problems and Practice. Stanford University, March 1991.
(3) Harnad, S. (1992) Connecting Object to Symbol in Modeling Cognition.
In: A. Clarke and R. Lutz (Eds) "Connectionism in Context" Springer
Verlag (forthcoming)
These articles are retrievable by anonymous ftp from directory
pub/harnad on princeton.edu (IP: 128.112.128.1) in binary mode
as the compressed files:
(1) harnad90.sgproblem.Z
(2) harnad91.cpnets.Z
(3) harnad92.symbol.object.Z
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