PUB - Publikationen an der Universität Bielefeld

Humans excel at learning from other humans [item 1) in the Appendix). Language facilitates such learning and plays a crucial role. On the one hand, it coordinates our interactions and cooperative behavior [item 2) in the Appendix). On the other hand, language and communication allow to directly incorporate novel knowledge gathered from social interaction or from reading [item 3) in the Appendix). It has been a long-standing goal of artificial intelligence to leverage such communicative abilities [item 4) in the Appendix) for robots and smart software agents which would, at first, simplify our interactions with machines through a more human-like way of coordinating between humans and robots. But furthermore, this would allow us to easily teach these machines, increasing their abilities and skills further which would allow them to become real partners and companions.