Interactive Grounding and Inference in Learning by Instruction

Abstract

Learning by instruction is one of the most common forms of learning, and a number of research efforts have modeled the cognitive process of instruction following, with many successes. However, most computational models remain brittle with respect to the given instructions, and they lack the ability to adapt dynamically to variants of the instructions. This paper aims to illustrate modeling constructs designed to make instruction following more robust, including (1) more flexible grounding of language to execution, (2) processing of instructions that allows for inference of implicit instruction knowledge, and (3) dynamic, interactive clarification of instructions during both the learning and execution stages. Examples in the context of a paired‐associates task and a visual‐search task are discussed.

Document Details

Document Type
Pub Defense Publication
Publication Date
Apr 26, 2021
Source ID
10.1111/tops.12535

Entities

People

  • Dario D Salvucci

Organizations

  • Air Force Office of Scientific Research
  • Drexel University

Tags

Fields of Study

  • Education

Readers

  • Computer Science.
  • Neural Network Machine Learning.

Technology Areas

  • AI & ML