Building and Learning Structures in a Situated Blocks World Through Deep Language Understanding
Ian Perera, James F. Allen, Choh Man Teng, Lucian Galescu · 2018
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, domainspecific 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.