... set-ting it is situated in, motivating automated learn-ing approaches to acquiring meaning. Tradi-tional accounts of learning typically rely on lin-guistic annotation (Zettlemoyer and Collins, ... tend to be interpreted as going to the north and southof landmarks, respectively. Interestingly, our sys-tem tends to move in the opposite cardinal direc-tion, i.e. the agent moves south in ... utterances we are inter-preting. During training we have access to the ref-erence path, which allows us to measure the util-ity, or reward, for each step of interpretation. Us-ing this reward...