A Spoken Language Interpretation Component for a Robot Dialogue System

The DORIS project aims to develop a spoken dialogue module for an autonomous robotic agent. In this talk, I will examine the techniques used by Scusi?, the speech interpretation component of DORIS, to postulate and assess hypotheses regarding the meaning of a spoken utterance, including our formalism for disambiguating referring expressions. I will also present the results of our evaluation experiments, and discuss our progress towards the interpretation of multiple utterances.

Speaker Bios

Ingrid Zukerman is a Professor in Computer Science at Monash University. She received her B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering and Management and her M.Sc. degree in Operations Research from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. She received her Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from UCLA in 1986. Since then, she has been working in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. Her areas of interest are discourse planning and interpretation, plan recognition and dialogue.

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Haut-parleurs:
Ingrid Zukerman
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Monash University