BIRON, what's the topic? A multi-modal topic tracker for improved human-robot interaction

Proceedings - IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 26-32

  Maas, Jan Frederik ^a   Spexard, Thorsten ^a   Fritsch, Jannik ^a,b   Wrede, Britta ^a   Sagerer, Gerhard ^a  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW INTERACTIONS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION THEORY; INTEGRATED OPTICS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; REVERSE OSMOSIS; ROBOTICS;

CHALLENGING TASKS; HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTIONS; INTEGRATED SYSTEMS; LASER SCANS; MULTI MODALS; NEW APPROACHES; OFFLINE; REAL WORLDS; SEMANTIC UNDERSTANDINGS; SITUATION AWARENESSES; SOCIAL SKILLS; SPEECH CORPORA; SPEECH INPUTS; TOPIC TRACKING;

ROBOTS;

EID: 34147167097     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314390     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (32)

1. K. Dautenhahn, S. Woods, C. Kaouri, M. Walters, K. Koay, and I. Werry, "What is a robot companion - friend, assistant or butler?" in Proc. IEEE IRS/RSJ Int. Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 2005, pp. 1488-1493.
2. COGNIRON, "The cognitive robot companion," http://www.cogniron. org.
3. A. Haasch, S. Hohenner, S. Hüwel, M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang, I. Toptsis, G. A. Fink, J. Fritsch, B. Wrede, and G. Sagerer, "BIRON - The Bielefeld Robot Companion," in Proc. Int. Workshop on Advances in Service Robotics, E. Prassler, G. Lawitzky, P. Fiorini, and M. Hägele, Eds. Stuttgart, Germany: Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, May 2004, pp. 27-32.
4. J. Crowley, "Context driven observation of human activity," in Proc. of the European Symposium on Ambient Intelligence, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2003, pp. 101-118.
5. C. Breazeal, Designing Sociable Robots. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002.
6. Y. Nagai, "Understanding the development of joint attention from a viewpoint of cognitive developmental robotics," Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Adaptive Machine Systems, Graduate School of Engeneering, Osaka University, 2004.
7. C. van Rijsbergen, Information Retrieval, 2nd ed. Internet Adress, 2005. [Online]. Available: http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/Keith/Preface.html
8. T. K. Landauer, P. W. Foltz, and D. Laham, "Introduction to latent semantic analysis," Discourse Processes, vol. 25, pp. 259-284, 1998.
9. P. W.-H. Freddy Choi and J. Moore, "Latent semantic analysis for text segmentation," in Proceedings of 6th EMNLP, 2001, pp. 109-117.
10. J. Allan, Ed., Topic Detection and Tracking. Norwell, Massachusetts: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002.
11. S. Renals, D. Abberley, D. Kirby, and T. Robinson, "Indexing and retrieval of broadcast news," Speech Communication, September 2000.
12. J. Ponte and W. Croft, "Text segmentation by topic," in ECDL '97: Proceedings of the First European Conference on Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries. Morgan Kauffman Publishers, 1997, pp. 113-125.
13. E. Shriberg, A. Stolcke, D. Hakkani-Tür, and G. Tür, "Prosody-based automatic segmentation of speech into sentences and topics," Speech Communication, vol. 1-2, no. 32, pp. 127-154, 2000.
14. C. L. Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn, J. Kubacki, M. Haegele, C. Parlitz, and R. Alami, "A methodological approach relating the classification of gesture to identification of human intent in the context of human-robot interaction," in Proc. IEEE Int. Symp. on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2005, pp. 371-377.
15. A. Carbone, A. Finzi, A. Orlandini, F. Pirri, and G. Ugazio, "Augmenting situation awareness via model-based control in rescue robots," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2005, pp. 1549-1555.
16. P. Rani and N. Sarkar, "Operator engagement detection and robot behavior adaption in human-robot interaction," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, 2005, pp. 2063-2068.
17. J. Fritsch, M. Kleinehagenbrock, A. Haasch, S. Wrede, and G. Sagerer, "A flexible infrastructure for the development of a robot companion with extensible HRI-capabilities," in Proc. IEEE Int. Conf. on Robotics and Automation, Barcelona, Spain, April 2005, pp. 3419-3425.
18. M. Kleinehagenbrock, J. Fritsch, and G. Sagerer, "Supporting advanced interaction capabilities on a mobile robot with a flexible control system," in Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems, vol. 3, Sendai, Japan, September/October 2004, pp. 3649-3655.
19. S. Wrede, J. Fritsch, C. Bauckhage, and G. Sagerer, "An XML Based Framework for Cognitive Vision Architectures," in Proc. Int. Conf. on Pattern Recognition, no. 1, 2004, pp. 757-760.
20. S. Lang, M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Hohenner, J. Fritsch, G. A. Fink, and G. Sagerer, "Providing the basis for human-robot-interaction: A multi-modal attention system for a mobile robot," in Proc. Int. Conf. on Multimodal Interfaces. Vancouver, Canada: ACM, November 2003, pp. 28-35.
21. J. Fritsch, M. Kleinehagenbrock, S. Lang, G. A. Fink, and G. Sagerer, "Audiovisual person tracking with a mobile robot," in Proc. Int. Conf. on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, F. Groen, N. Amato, A. Bonarini, E. Yoshida, and B. Kröse, Eds. Amsterdam: IOS Press, March 2004, pp. 898-906.
22. A. Haasch, N. Hofemann, J. Fritsch, and G. Sagerer, "A multi-modal object attention system for a mobile robot," in Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: IEEE, August 2005, pp. 1499-1504.
23. T. Spexard, S. Li, B. Wrede, J. Fritsch, G. Sagerer, O. Booij, Z. Zivkovic, B. Terwijn, and B. Kröse, "Biron, where are you? - enabling a robot to learn new places in a real home environment by integrating spoken dialog and visual localization," in Proc. IEEE/RSJ Int. Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems. IEEE, October 2006, to appear.
24. S. Li, B. Wrede, and G. Sagerer, "A computational model of multi-modal grounding," in Proc. SIGdial workshop on discourse and dialog. ACL Press, 2006.
25. R. Serafin and B. D. Eugenio, "Flsa: Extending latent semantic analysis with features for dialogue act classification," in ACL 2004, 2004, pp. 692-699.
26. H. Schmid, "Probabilistic part-of-speech tagging using decision trees," in International Conference on New Methods in Language Processing, Manchester, UK, 1994.
27. G. Salton, Introduction to Modern Information Retrieval. McGraw-Hill, 1983.
28. B. B. Rieger, "Feasible fuzzy semantics, on some problems of how to handle word meaning empirically," in Words, Worlds and Contexts, H. R. H.J. Eikmeyer, Ed. de Gruyter, 1981, pp. 193-209.
29. P. Cimiano, A. Hotho, and S. Staab, "Comparing conceptual, partitional and agglomerative clustering for learning taxonomies from text," in Proceedings of the European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI'04). IOS Press, 2004, pp. 435-439.
30. J. F. Maas and B. Wrede, "BITT: A corpus for topic tracking evaluation on multimodal human-robot-interaction," in Proceedings of the international conference on Language and Evaluation (LREC), Genoa, Italy, 2006, to appear.
31. A. Hotho, A. Nürnberger, and G. Paaß, "A Brief Survey of Text Mining," 2005, http://www.kde.cs.unikassel.de/hotho/pub/2005/ hotho05TextMining.pdf.
32. Y. W. Seo and K. Sycara, "Text clustering for topic detection," Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, Tech. Rep., January 2004.