Grounding ‘Grounding’ in NLP
Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, Yonatan Bisk, Alan W. Black
Abstract
The NLP community has seen substantial recent interest in grounding to facilitate interaction between language technologies and the world. However, as a community, we use the term broadly to reference any linking of text to data or non-textual modality. In contrast, Cognitive Science more formally defines "grounding" as the process of establishing what mutual information is required for successful communication between two interlocutorsa definition which might implicitly capture the NLP usage but differs in intent and scope.
Topics & Concepts
GroundComputer scienceArtificial intelligenceNatural language processingEngineeringElectrical engineeringTopic ModelingNatural Language Processing TechniquesSpeech and dialogue systems