Welcome to the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory

The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, or short VUB AI-Lab, was founded in 1983 by Luc Steels and is part of the Computer Science Department. Over the years, more than hundred researchers have worked at the laboratory. They have built a large number of artificial systems to investigate aspects of intelligence: knowledge systems, autonomous robots, machine learning systems, natural language processing components, design and implementation tools.
 
Today, the laboratory mainly focuses on the evolution of language and grounded communication systems. The core technologies that are under development in the lab are Fluid Construction Grammar (FCG) and Babel2. 

Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar
Experiments in Cultural Language Evolution
Language Grounding in Robots

Latest News

Language Grounding in Robots in press at Springer

Submitted by katrien on Fri, 01/13/2012 - 09:17
This volume edited by Luc Steels and Manfred Hild (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) discusses several significant innovations, such as robotic embodiment, evolutionary derivation of neural controllers, embodied cognitive semantics and Fluid Construction Grammar. It will come out on February 29 2012. More information can be found on the Springer website.

Online Demonstrations for 'Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar'

Submitted by katrien on Wed, 01/04/2012 - 14:24
Software demonstrations of the different chapters of Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar are available online! You can download the chapters and try out the different interactive demos here.

Latest Babel2 release on Trac

Submitted by katrien on Mon, 01/02/2012 - 14:48
A new release of Babel has come out on the Babel2 trac website on 29 December 2011. This release contains new templates and demonstration files for building grammars in Fluid Construction Grammar, supporting the recent volume Design Patterns in Fluid Construction Grammar (ed. Luc Steels).

New IWT project accepted

Submitted by katrien on Mon, 12/26/2011 - 08:37
A new Strategic Basic Research grant from the agency for Innovation by Science and Technology has been granted to Kevin Stadler, a pre-doc researcher at the AI Lab. The project is titled "Dynamic Speaker Alignment for Interactive Dialog Systems". More information can be found on the project page.

New AI lab website launched today!

Submitted by katrien on Thu, 12/15/2011 - 12:22
Welcome to our brand new AI Lab website! You can find all information on our research projects, topics and publications in the section 'Research'. Also visit our news and media sections to get an idea of what we are doing at the moment! General questions can be send to info@ai.vub.ac.be .  
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