Experience Grounds Language

Understand

Language understanding research is held back by a failure to relate language to the physical world it describes and to the social interactions it facilitates.

• Despite the incredible effectiveness of language processing models to tackle tasks after being trained on text alone, successful linguistic communication relies on a shared experience of the world.
• It is this shared experience that makes utterances meaningful.
• Natural language processing is a diverse field, and progress throughout its development has come from new representational theories, modeling techniques, data collection paradigms, and tasks.