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Education
Ph.D. 2004 University of Rochester, Computer Science
Research Interests
My research focuses on understanding human development and learning through both empirical studies and computational models with the hope to get a more complete picture. I am particularly interested in how language is grounded in sensorimotor experience and how language development depends on complex interactions among brain, body and environment. Based on computational models of human language acquisition and findings from empirical studies, my passion is to build anthropomorphic machines that learn and use language in human-like ways.
Representative Publications
Chen Yu and Dana H. Ballard (in press), "A Unified Model of Early Word Learning: Integrating Statistical and Social Cues", Neurocomputing.
Chen Yu and Linda B. Smith (in press), " Rapid Word Learning under Uncertainty via Cross-Situational Statistics ", Psychological Science.
Chen Yu (2005), "The Emergence of Links between Lexical Acquisition and Object Categorization: A Computational Study", Connection Science, 17(3-4),381-392.
Chen Yu, Dana H. Ballard and Richard N. Aslin (2005), "The Role of Embodied Intention in Early Lexical Acquisition", Cognitive Science, 29(6),961-1005.
Chen Yu and Dana H. Ballard (2004), "A Multimodal Learning Interface for Grounding Spoken Language in Sensory Perceptions", ACM Transactions on Applied Perception, 1, 57-80.
Chen Yu and Dana H. Ballard (2004), “On the Integration of Grounding Language and Learning Objects”, Proceedings of the Nineteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Chen Yu and Dana H. Ballard (2004), “A Unified Model of Early Word Learning: Integrating Statistical and Social Cues”, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Development and Learning.
Chen Yu, Paul M. Aoki and Allison Woodruff (2004), “Detecting User Engagement in Everyday Conversations”, Proceedings of the eighth International Conference on Spoken Language Processing. Jeju, Korean.
Chen Yu, Dana H. Ballard and Richard N. Aslin (2003), “The Role of Embodied Intention in Early Lexical Acquisition”, Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of Cognitive Science Society. Boston, MA. [The Marr Prize winner for best student paper]
Chen Yu and Dana H. Ballard (2002), “Understanding Human Behaviors Based on Eye-Head-Hand Coordination”, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science LNCS 2525, Springer-Verlag Heidelberg, Germany.
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