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                "text": "Grounded language acquisition involves learning to comprehend and/or generate language by simply observing its use in a naturally occurring context in which the meaning of a sentence is grounded in perception and/or action (Roy, 2002; Yu and Ballard, 2004; Gold and Scassellati, 2007; Chen et al., 2010) . B\u00f6rschinger et al. (2011) introduced an approach that reduces grounded language learning to unsupervised probabilistic context-free grammar (PCFG) induction and demonstrated its effectiveness on the task of sportscasting simulated robot soccer games. Subsequently, Kim and Mooney (2012) extended their approach to make it tractable for the more complex problem of learning to follow natural-language navigation instructions from observations of humans following such instructions in a virtual environment (Chen and Mooney, 2011) . The observed sequence of actions provides very weak, ambiguous supervision for learning instructional language since there are many possible ways to describe the same execution path. Although their approach improved accuracy on the navigation task compared to the original work of Chen and Mooney (2011) , it was still far from human performance.",
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                "text": "Since their system employs a generative model, discriminative reranking (Collins, 2000) could potentially improve its performance. By training a discriminative classifier that uses global features of complete parses to identify correct interpretations, a reranker can significantly improve the accuracy of a generative model. Reranking has been successfully employed to improve syntactic parsing (Collins, 2002b) , semantic parsing (Lu et al., 2008; Ge and Mooney, 2006) , semantic role labeling (Toutanova et al., 2005) , and named entity recognition (Collins, 2002c) . Standard reranking requires gold-standard interpretations (e.g. parse trees) to train the discriminative classifier. However, grounded language learning does not provide gold-standard interpretations for the training examples. Only the ambiguous perceptual context of the utterance is provided as supervision. For the navigation task, this supervision consists of the observed sequence of actions taken by a human when following an instruction. Therefore, it is impossible to directly apply conventional discriminative reranking to such problems. We show how to adapt reranking to work with such weak supervision. Instead of using gold-standard annotations to determine the correct interpretations, we simply prefer interpretations of navigation instructions that, when executed in the world, actually reach the intended destination. Additionally, we extensively revise the features typically used in parse reranking to work with the PCFG approach to grounded language learning.",
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                "text": "We address the navigation learning task introduced by Chen and Mooney (2011) . The goal is to interpret natural-language (NL) instructions in a virtual environment, thereby allowing a simulated robot to navigate to a specified location. Figure 1a shows a sample path executed by a human following the instruction in Figure 1b . Given no prior linguistic knowledge, the task is to learn to interpret such instructions by simply observing humans follow sample directions. Formally speaking, given training examples of the form (e i , a i , w i ), where e i is an NL instruction, a i is an executed action sequence for the instruction, and w i is the initial world state, we want to learn to produce an appropriate action sequence a j given a novel (e j , w j ).",
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                "text": "More specifically, one must learn a semantic parser that produces a plan p j using a formal meaning representation (MR) language introduced by Chen and Mooney (2011) . This plan is then executed by a simulated robot in a virtual environment. The MARCO system, introduced by MacMahon et al. 2006, executes the formal plan, flexibly adapting to situations encountered during execution and producing the action sequence a j . During learning, Chen and Mooney construct a landmarks plan c i for each training example, which includes the complete context observed in the world-state resulting from each observed action. The correct plan, p i , (which is latent and must be inferred) is assumed to be composed from a subset of the components in the corresponding landmarks plan. The landmarks and correct plans for a sample instruction are shown in Figure 1b .",
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                "text": "In reranking, a baseline generative model is first trained and generates a set of candidate outputs for each training example. Next, a second conditional model is trained which uses global features to rescore the candidates. Reranking using an averaged perceptron (Collins, 2002a) has been successfully applied to a variety of NLP tasks. Therefore, we modify it to rerank the parse trees generated by Kim and Mooney (2012) 's model. The approach requires three subcomponents: 1) a GEN function that returns the list of top n candidate parse trees for each NL sentence produced by the generative model, 2) a feature function \u03a6 that maps a NL sentence, e, and a parse tree, y, into a real-valued feature vector \u03a6(e, y) \u2208 R d , and 3) a reference parse tree that is compared to the highest-scoring parse tree during training.",
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