This paper describes the software architecture of an autonomous tour-guide/tutor robot. This robot was recently deployed in the "Deutsches Museum Bonn," were it guided h...
Wolfram Burgard, Armin B. Cremers, Dieter Fox, Dir...
Developing tools that allow non-programmers to enter knowledge has been an ongoing challenge for AI. In recent years researchers have investigated a variety ofpromising approaches...
Compelling synthetic characters must behave in ways that reflect their past experience and thus allow for individual personalization. We therefore need a method that allows charac...
Song-Yee Yoon, Robert C. Burke, Bruce Blumberg, Ge...
This paper describes a knowledge-based methodologyof miningtextual answersinto large collections of texts. Wepresent SOMBRERO,a knowledge processing module implemented in the LASS...
This paper describes a method for the development of dialogue managers for natural language interfaces. A dialogue manager is presented designed on the basis of both a theoretical...