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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Grounding problem"”.
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A specification method for the scalable self-governance of complex autonomic systems
… the system. This condition is termed the Signal Grounding Problem. This problem cannot usually be solved by analytical or algorithmic methods, as these solutions generally require precise problem formulations and a static operating domain. Rather cognitive techniques will be needed that perform …
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Emergent transducing computing for evolving interactive musical agents
… The model facilitates general environmental problem solving and potential solutions to the Symbol Grounding Problem and Frame Problem, and enables the extrapolation of a meta-problem, original to this dissertation, termed the interaction problem. These features support an extension of …
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Immaterialist solutions to puzzles in personal ontology
… identical to, human organisms. Because of the problems that arise from endorsing these ontologies, I instead advance immaterialism, the view that we are essentially immaterial. In Chapter 2, I discuss how animalists must respond to a widely-discussed metaphysical puzzle, the problem of the …
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Domain knowledge acquisition via language grounding
This thesis addresses the language grounding problem at the level of word relation extraction. We propose methods to acquire knowledge represented in the form of relations and utilize them in two domain applications, high-level planning in a complex virtual world and input parser generation from …
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Intrinsic representation : bootstrapping symbols from experience
… that understanding by focusing on the symbol-grounding problem, showing how symbols can emerge from a system that looks for regularity in the experiences of its visual and proprioceptive sensory systems. More specifically, my implemented system builds descriptions up from low-level perceptual …
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Mapping spatial relations
… fundamental issues in cognitive science is the problem of grounding concepts in the perceptual world. In this thesis, I present a computational theory for how spatial relations are grounded in the perceptual world. Three constraints are critical to this theory: abstractness, groundedness and …
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An analysis of the grounding relation
This dissertation is an analysis of the grounding relation and its use in contemporary metaphysics. In the first three chapters, I consider the relation itself and its formal features. In the first chapter, I argue that there is such a grounding relation and that it is distinct from other …
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Practical artificial commonsense
… applied with spectacular success to challenging problems in our world, these same successes often translate into spectacular failures when these systems encounter situations that their engineers never conceived. These failures stand in stark contrast to the average person who, while lacking the …
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An Electrophysiological Investigation of Embodied Language Processing
… to other amodal symbols (Galetzka, 2017). The problem with this cognitivist approach is that it was unclear how these symbols came to have meaning, known as the “grounding problem” (Harnad, 1990; Searle, 1980). Theories of embodied cognition were developed in an attempt to resolve this issue …
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Cold-start universal information extraction
… Auto-Encoder approach that frames IE as a grounding problem instead of classification, where knowledge elements are grounded into any types from an extensible and large-scale target ontology or induced from the corpora, with available annotations for a few types. How can IE approaches be …