Following directions using statistical machine translation

5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 251-258

  Matuszek, Cynthia ^a   Fox, Dieter ^a   Koscher, Karl ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Instruction following; Natural language; Navigation; Statistical machine translation

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTIONS; INSTRUCTION FOLLOWING; MAP-LABELING; NATURAL LANGUAGES; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; STATISTICAL MACHINE TRANSLATION; TRAINING DATA; TRANSLATION PROCESS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; NAVIGATION; SPEECH TRANSMISSION; TRANSLATION (LANGUAGES);

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 77951557171     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1734454.1734552     Document Type: Conference Paper

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