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  <Title>Towards Language Acquisition by an Attention-Sharing Robot</Title>
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5 Conclusion and Future Research
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We described our preliminary model of attention-sharing as a device for observing learning data (others' verbal behavior) for symbol acquisition.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The model will work in the bootstrapping stage of infants' symbol acquisition; it only deals with referring to physical objects. Infants at this stage tend to take an unknown label as a category name of a physical object, and then apply the label to other objects with similar shape (Imai, 1997).</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> In future research, we have to fully implement the gaze-monitoring process and to evaluate it in human-robot interaction. Also we are planning an experiment on evaluating the accuracy of human gaze-monitoring; this will reveal how humans rely on top-down semantic/pragmatic information in attention-sharing.</Paragraph>
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