The two tasks can be integrated in a relatively seamless way, since, as we have just formulated them, they have a common objective, that of finding a minimal, consistent set of reusable units.
our model simulates the learning task, taking as input the unsegmented phonemic representation of the speech along with the set of objects in the non-linguistic context as shown in Figure 1 (a), and infers both a segmentation and a word-object mapping as in Figure 1 (b).