Interaction between caregivers and children plays a critical role in human language acquisition and development. Given this observation, it is remarkable that explicit interaction plays little to no role in artificial language modeling -- which also targets the acquisition of human language, yet by artificial models. Moreover, an interactive approach to language modeling has the potential to make language models substantially more versatile and to considerably impact downstream applications. Motivated by these considerations, we pioneer the space of interactive language modeling. As a first contribution we present a road map in which we detail the steps that need to be taken towards interactive language modeling. We then lead by example and take the first steps on this road map, showing the initial feasibility of our approach. As such, this work aims to be the start of a larger research agenda on interactive language modeling.
翻译:照顾者与儿童之间的互动在人类语言的获取和发展中发挥着关键作用。鉴于这一看法,显而易见的是,明确的互动在人工语言建模方面几乎没有作用,甚至没有作用 -- -- 人工语言建模也是以获取人类语言为目标的,但也是以人工建模为目标的。此外,语言建模的互动方法有可能使语言建模模式更具有多功能性,并对下游应用产生重大影响。我们受这些考虑的驱动,开创了交互式语言建模的空间。作为第一个贡献,我们提出了一个路线图,详细介绍了为交互式语言建模而需要采取的步骤。然后,我们以身作则为榜样,在路线图上迈出第一步,展示了我们方法的初步可行性。因此,这项工作旨在成为关于交互式语言建模的更大研究议程的开端。