Kery, CarolineMatuszek, CynthiaFerraro, Francis2019-07-092019-07-092019-06Caroline Kery, et.al, ¿Es un platano? Exploring the Application of a Physically Grounded Language Acquisition System to Spanish, Proceedings of the Combined Workshop on Spatial Language Understanding (SpLU) and Grounded Communication for Robotics (RoboNLP), 7–17, 2019, https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W19-1602http://hdl.handle.net/11603/14359In this paper we describe a multilingual grounded language learning system adapted from an English-only system. This system learns the meaning of words used in crowd-sourced descriptions by grounding them in the physical representations of the objects they are describing. Our work presents a framework to compare the performance of the system when applied to a new language and to identify modifications necessary to attain equal performance, with the goal of enhancing the ability of robots to learn language from a more diverse range of people. We then demonstrate this system with Spanish, through first analyzing the performance of translated Spanish, and then extending this analysis to a new corpus of crowd-sourced Spanish language data. We find that with small modifications, the system is able to learn color, object, and shape words with comparable performance between languages.11 pagesen-USThis item is likely protected under Title 17 of the U.S. Copyright Law. Unless on a Creative Commons license, for uses protected by Copyright Law, contact the copyright holder or the author.Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)multilingual grounded languagecrowd-sourced Spanish language datanatural language processingInteractive Robotics and Language Labmultilingual grounded language learning systemText