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The L0 project at ICSI and UC Berkeley attempts to combine not only vision and natural language modelling, but also learning. The original task was put forward in (Feldman et al. 1990a) as a touchstone task for AI and cognitive science. The task is to build a system that can learn the appropriate fragment of any natural language from sentence-picture pairs. We have not succeeded in building such a system, but we have made considerable progress on component subtasks and this has led in a number of productive and surprising directions.
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Feldman, J., Lakoff, G., Bailey, D. et al. L0-The first five years of an automated language acquisition project. Artif Intell Rev 10, 103–129 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00159218
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