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SUMMARY:Learning to Follow Orders: Reinforcement Learning for Mapping Inst
 ructions to Actions - Luke Zettlemoyer\, University of Edinburgh
DTSTART:20091204T120000Z
DTEND:20091204T130000Z
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CONTACT:Laura Rimell
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, I will address the problem of relating linguist
 ic\nanalysis and control --- specifically\, mapping natural language\ninst
 ructions to executable actions. I will present a reinforcement\nlearning a
 lgorithm for inducing these mappings by interacting with\nvirtual computer
  environments and observing the outcome of the\nexecuted actions. This tec
 hnique has enabled automation of tasks that\nuntil now have required human
  participation --- for example\,\nautomatically configuring software by co
 nsulting how-to guides. Our\nresults demonstrate that this method can riva
 l supervised learning\ntechniques while requiring few or no annotated trai
 ning examples.\n\nThis is joint work with Branavan\, Harr Chen and Regina 
 Barzilay.
LOCATION:SW01\, Computer Laboratory
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