Learning to Interpret Natural Language Navigation Instructions from Observations (2012)
Author: David L. Chen
The ability to understand natural-language instructions is critical to building intelligent agents that interact with humans. In this project we look at building a system that learns to transform natural-language navigation instructions into executable formal plans. Given no prior linguistic knowledge, the system learns by only observing how humans follow navigation instructions.

More information, and an example run of the system can be found at this link: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ml/clamp/navigation/
David Chen Ph.D. Alumni cooldc [at] hotmail com
Fast Online Lexicon Learning for Grounded Language Acquisition 2012
David L. Chen, Proceedings of the 50th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-2012) (2012), pp. 430--439.
Learning to Interpret Natural Language Navigation Instructions from Observations 2011
David L. Chen and Raymond J. Mooney, Proceedings of the 25th AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-2011) (2011), pp. 859-865.
Panning for Gold: Finding Relevant Semantic Content for Grounded Language Learning 2011
David L. Chen and Raymond J. Mooney, In Proceedings of Symposium on Machine Learning in Speech and Language Processing (MLSLP 2011), June 2011.