On natural language dialogue with assistive robots

HRI 2006: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages 164-171

  Kulyukin, Vladimir A ^a  

^a Utah State University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Assistive robotics; Assistive technology; Natural language dialogue

Indexed keywords

INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

ASSISTIVE ROBOTICS; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOGUE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 33745847167     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1121241.1121270     Document Type: Conference Paper

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