Perspective alignment in spatial language

Abstract

This chapter investigates the role of perspective alignment in the planning and interpretation of spatial language in a series of robotic experiments. It shows which cognitive mechanisms are necessary and sufficient to achieve successful spatial language, and why and how perspective alignment can take place, either implicitly or based on explicit marking.This research was funded and carried out at the Sony Computer Science Laboratory in Paris with additional funding from the EU FET ECAgents Project IST-1940.Peer reviewe