The design and development of social robots that interact and assist people in daily life requires moving into unconstrained daily-life environments. This presents unexplored meth...
Fumihide Tanaka, Javier R. Movellan, Bret Fortenbe...
We present a method of grounded word learning that is powerful enough to learn the meanings of first and second person pronouns. The model uses the understood words in an utteran...
— Imitation is a powerful mechanism for transferring knowledge from an instructor to a na¨ıve observer, one that is deeply contingent on a state of shared attention between the...
Aaron P. Shon, David B. Grimes, Chris Baker, Matth...
A process defines the way activities are organized, managed, measured, supported and improved to reach a goal. It has been shown, 15 years ago [1] that processes are software too; ...
Inspired by computational linguistic approaches to annotate the structures that occur in human dialogue, this paper describes a technique which encodes these structures as transfo...
Jarred McGinnis, David Robertson, Christopher Walt...