... 1995) and recent investigations on computa-tional models for language acquisition and ground-ing (Siskind, 1995; Roy and Pentland, 2002; Yu and Ballard, 2004), we are particularly interested in two ... previous work in the fol-lowing three areas: psycholinguistics studies, multi-modal interactive systems, and computational mod-eling of language acquisition and grounding.Previous psycholinguistics ... Acquisition and Interpretation in Multimodal Conversational Systems Yi Liu Joyce Y. Chai Rong JinDepartment of Computer Science and EngineeringMichigan State UniversityEast Lansing, MI 48824,...