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A spoken language interface with a mobile robot

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We describe a spoken dialogue interface with a mobile robot, which a human can direct to specific locations, ask for information about its status, and supply information about its environment. The robot uses an internal map for navigation, and communicates its current orientation and accessible locations to the dialogue system. In this article, we focus on linguistic and inferential aspects of the human–robot communication process.

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  1. Dipartimento di Informatical, Universitá di Roma “La Sapienza”, Rome, Italy

    Johan Bos

  2. Department of Information and Systems Engineering, Fukuoka Institute of Technology, 3-30-1 Wajiro-higashi, Fukuoka, 811-0295, Japan

    Tetsushi Oka

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Correspondence to Tetsushi Oka.

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This work was conducted at ICCS, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

This work was presented in part at the 11th International Symposium on Artificial Life and Robotics, Oita, Japan, January 23–25, 2006

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Bos, J., Oka, T. A spoken language interface with a mobile robot. Artif Life Robotics 11, 42–47 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-006-0397-5

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