Grounded Multi-Agent Language Games
Douwe Kiela (Facebook AI Research)
Thursday, April 4,
11:00am – 12:30pm
4.31, Informatics Forum
I will talk about recent work done at FAIR on novel directions for natural language processing research. While a lot of progress has recently been made in natural language understanding, e.g. by using (contextualized) word and sentence embeddings, big challenges remain. I will discuss fresh perspectives on natural language learning, in the shape of grounded multi-agent language games: While Wittgenstein is often invoked as the godfather of the distributional hypothesis, I argue that he has rather different lessons to teach us. This leads to a new research program for true natural language understanding, centering around active language usage in “grounded multi-agent language games”. I will give some examples of research we have done at FAIR that goes in that direction.