NWO-Spinoza Prize projects Vossen “Understanding Language by Machines”: five years of research in FILM
http://www.understandinglanguagebymachines.org
In this video Piek Vossen explains the background, results and cohesion of the FIVE Spinoza-projects:
It explains three key notions of our research: identity, reference and perspective of language understanding.
What are the things in the world, what words and expressions in our language can refer to these and from what perspective do we choose to make reference in particular way? What makes this challenging is the massive ambiguity and variation in language which not even big data models can handle.
Four different projects have addressed these problems in the last five years:
- Project 1 — Word Sense Disambiguation
- Project 2 — Perception & Description of Images
- Project 3 — Storylines & Perspectives
- Project 4 — Context & Background Knowledge
Recently, a fifth project started in which all aspects come together in the physical embodiment of a robot called Leolani. Understanding the world and being able to talk about it with humans is a real challenge for robots:
- Project 5 — Make Robots talk