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HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Following directions using statistical machine translation
—Mobile robots that interact with humans in an intuitive way must be able to follow directions provided by humans in unconstrained natural language. In this work we investigate h...
Cynthia Matuszek, Dieter Fox, Karl Koscher
HRI
2010
ACM
13 years 11 months ago
Toward understanding natural language directions
—Speaking using unconstrained natural language is an intuitive and flexible way for humans to interact with robots. Understanding this kind of linguistic input is challenging be...
Thomas Kollar, Stefanie Tellex, Deb Roy, Nicholas ...
PERCOM
2005
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
Middleware for User Controlled Environments
In this paper, we describe the middleware that has evolved from our attempt to capture user descriptions of policies controlling devices and services from natural language. Descri...
Bill Keller, Tim Owen, Ian Wakeman, Julie Weeds, D...
CHI
2004
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Human-robot speech interface understanding inexplicit utterances using vision
Speech interfaces should have a capability of dealing with inexplicit utterances including such as ellipsis and deixis since they are common phenomena in our daily conversation. T...
Zaliyana Mohd Hanafiah, Chizu Yamazaki, Akio Nakam...
POPL
2009
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Wild control operators
Linguists seek to understand the semantics of expressions in human languages. Taking a computational point of view, there are many natural language expressions--operators in the w...
Chris Barker