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Human-Robot Interaction in a Shopping Mall: A CNL Approach

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We introduce a human-robot interaction framework for robots helping/guiding customers in a shopping mall environment. For that, we design and develop controlled natural languages for customers’ and robots’ questions and instructions. We construct knowledge bases representing general/specific static/dynamic knowledge about shopping malls, to be used in conjunction with the CNLs. We show an application of our framework with a humanoid robot.

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Acknowledgments

Thanks to Volkan Patoglu for useful suggestions on the design of CNLs. This work is partially supported by TUBITAK Grant 114E491 (Chist-Era COACHES).

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  1. Sabanci University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Ezgi Demirel, Kamil Doruk Gur & Esra Erdem

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Demirel, E., Gur, K.D., Erdem, E. (2016). Human-Robot Interaction in a Shopping Mall: A CNL Approach. In: Davis, B., Pace, G., Wyner, A. (eds) Controlled Natural Language. CNL 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9767. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41498-0_11

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