Building and Learning Structures in a Situated Blocks World Through Deep Language Understanding

Ian Perera, James Allen, Choh Man Teng, Lucian Galescu


Abstract
We demonstrate a system for understanding natural language utterances for structure description and placement in a situated blocks world context. By relying on a rich, domain-specific adaptation of a generic ontology and a logical form structure produced by a semantic parser, we obviate the need for an intermediate, domain-specific representation and can produce a reasoner that grounds and reasons over concepts and constraints with real-valued data. This linguistic base enables more flexibility in interpreting natural language expressions invoking intrinsic concepts and features of structures and space. We demonstrate some of the capabilities of a system grounded in deep language understanding and present initial results in a structure learning task.
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W18-1402
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Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding
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June
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2018
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New Orleans
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Parisa Kordjamshidi, Archna Bhatia, James Pustejovsky, Marie-Francine Moens
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SpLU
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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12–20
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https://aclanthology.org/W18-1402
DOI:
10.18653/v1/W18-1402
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Ian Perera, James Allen, Choh Man Teng, and Lucian Galescu. 2018. Building and Learning Structures in a Situated Blocks World Through Deep Language Understanding. In Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding, pages 12–20, New Orleans. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Building and Learning Structures in a Situated Blocks World Through Deep Language Understanding (Perera et al., SpLU 2018)
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