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|name= Jonas Hörnstein
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|email= jhornstein@isr.ist.utl.pt
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|bio= Jonas Hörnstein is a PhD student at the VisLab - Computer and Robot Vision Lab within the Institute for Systems and Robotics at Instituto Superior Técnico.}}

== Date ==

* 14:00, Friday, November 6<sup>th</sup>, 2009
* Room 336

== Speaker ==

* Jonas Hörnstein, Institute for Systems and Robotics

== Abstract ==

Unlike computer-based ASR-systems, infants are able to acquire  
impressive language skills from very little speech exposure. How they  
are able to do that is still an open question, but part of the answer  
may be found in the interaction between an infant and its caregiver.  
By using a humanoid robot it is possible to mimic this interaction in  
order to (i) investigate how much of linguistic structure that can be  
derived directly from the speech signal directed to infants and (ii)  
finding novel methods for language acquisition in a humanoid robot.

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