@inproceedings{shi-etal-2025-learning,
    title = "Learning Language through Grounding",
    author = "Shi, Freda  and
      Ma, Ziqiao  and
      Mao, Jiayuan  and
      Kordjamshidi, Parisa  and
      Chai, Joyce",
    editor = "Lomeli, Maria  and
      Swayamdipta, Swabha  and
      Zhang, Rui",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 2025 Annual Conference of the Nations of the Americas Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (Volume 5: Tutorial Abstracts)",
    month = may,
    year = "2025",
    address = "Albuquerque, New Mexico",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/landing_page/2025.naacl-tutorial.6/",
    pages = "38--43",
    ISBN = "979-8-89176-193-3",
    abstract = "Grounding has been a long-standing concept in natural language processing (NLP) and computational linguistics (CL). This tutorial provides a historical overview and introduces recent advances in learning language through grounding, with a particular emphasis on the latter. We will begin by tracing the history of grounding and presenting a unified perspective on the term. In Parts II to IV, we will delve into recent progress in learning lexical semantics, syntax, and complex meanings through various forms of grounding. We will conclude by discussing future directions and open challenges, particularly those related to the growing trend of large language models and scaling."
}