Speaky for robots: the development of vocal interfaces for robotic applications

Applied Intelligence

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 43-66

  Bastianelli, Emanuele ^a   Nardi, Daniele ^a   Aiello, Luigia Carlucci ^a   Giacomelli, Fabrizio ^b   Manes, Nicolamaria ^b  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b ALES Srl   (Italy)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Knowledge representation; Natural language interfaces; Spoken language understanding

Indexed keywords

CHAINS; COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; MACHINE DESIGN; MOBILE DEVICES; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; REFINING; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATIONS; EFFECTIVE PERFORMANCE; EXPERIMENTAL PROJECTS; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; NATURAL LANGUAGE INTERFACES; ROBOTIC APPLICATIONS; SPEECH RECOGNITION ENGINE; SPOKEN LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 84953348440     PISSN: 0924669X     EISSN: 15737497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10489-015-0695-5     Document Type: Article

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