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Learning Intentions Following Evolution
"Understanding why a certain utterance was said by a participant in a conversation is fundamental for successful communication to take place. Notwithstanding the central role of understanding intentions in communication, this and...
"Understanding why a certain utterance was said by a participant in a conversation is fundamental for successful communication to take place. Notwithstanding the central role of understanding intentions in communication, this and other forms of pragmatic reasoning remain beyond the current state-of-the-art in Natural Language Processing (NLP). For this reason, critical applications of these technologies, such as personal assistants, remain limited to few hand-coded use-cases such as adding events to a calendar and fail to serve as general-purpose communicative assistants.
This proposal aims at making significant progress towards genuine Natural Language Understanding (NLU). It introduces a system that can reason about the pragmatic meaning of a sentence by searching for useful explanations in a space that represents all possible concepts (often called a ""Language of Thought""). Because such a search process is generally intractable, this project proposes to let the system discover the more efficient way to search. To achieve this goal, it will model an open-ended evolutionary process that is here hypothesized to lead to emergent exploration strategies.
This project bridges Linguistics and Complex Systems with connections to Cognitive Science and Evolutionary Theory. To maximize its success probability, I will conduct it at the COLT Lab in Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), a leading group in Computational Linguistics, with a secondment at Santa Fe Institute (SFI), a global leader in Complexity Science."
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Duración del proyecto: 35 meses
Fecha Inicio: 2022-09-05
Fecha Fin: 2025-08-31
Fecha Fin: 2025-08-31
Línea de financiación: concedida
El organismo HORIZON EUROPE notifico la concesión del proyecto el día 2022-09-05
Línea de financiación objetivo
El proyecto se financió a través de la siguiente ayuda:
HORIZON-MSCA-2021-PF-01-01:
MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowships 2021
Cerrada
hace 3 años
Presupuesto
El presupuesto total del proyecto asciende a
181K€
Líder del proyecto
UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA
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Total investigadores
321
Total investigadores
321
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