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International Colloquium on Grammatical Inference

ICGI 2002: Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications pp 306–308Cite as

‘NAIL’: Artificial Intelligence Software for Learning Natural Language

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This paper describes NAIL, a software system to learn the semantics of language by relating written English commands to actions and properties in a simple 2D ’blocks world’ virtual environment.

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  1. School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT, England

    Sam Lievesley & Eric Atwell

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  1. Perot Systems Nederland B.V., Hoefseweg 1, 3821 AE, Amersfoort, The Netherlands

    Pieter Adriaans (Senior Research Advisor, Professor of Learning and Adaptive Systems) (Senior Research Advisor, Professor of Learning and Adaptive Systems)

  2. ILLC/Computation and Complexity Theory, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Pieter Adriaans (Senior Research Advisor, Professor of Learning and Adaptive Systems) (Senior Research Advisor, Professor of Learning and Adaptive Systems)

  3. School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan, NSW, 2308, Australia

    Henning Fernau

  4. Wilhelm-Schickard-Institut für Informatik, Universität Tübingen, Sand 13, 72076, Tübingen, Germany

    Henning Fernau

  5. FNWI/ILLC, Cognitive Systems and Information Processing Group, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Room B-5.39, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Menno van Zaanen

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Lievesley, S., Atwell, E. (2002). ‘NAIL’: Artificial Intelligence Software for Learning Natural Language. In: Adriaans, P., Fernau, H., van Zaanen, M. (eds) Grammatical Inference: Algorithms and Applications. ICGI 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2484. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45790-9_28

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