A discriminative model for understanding natural language route directions

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-10-05, Issue , 2010, Pages 147-152

  Kollar, Thomas ^a   Tellex, Stefanie ^b   Roy, Nicholas ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b MIT MEDIA LAB   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; DECISION MAKING; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAGNETORHEOLOGICAL FLUIDS; MARKOV PROCESSES; SEMANTICS;

ADDITIONAL STRUCTURES; CONDITIONAL RANDOM FIELD; DISCRIMINATIVE MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL FEATURES; LINGUISTIC DESCRIPTIONS; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; MARKOV RANDOM FIELDS; SEQUENCE OF ACTIONS;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 79960131172     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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