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Ontology of Spatial Concepts in a Natural Language Interface for a Mobile Robot

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In this paper we present problems connected with the construction of a natural language (NL) interface for a mobile robot. We determine the spatial information that should be analysed in this kind of interface, as well as indicate which information can be omitted. This study is a contribution to our long-term research program on man-machine communication. Implementation of a virtual agent (ACALA) equipped with a natural language interface is important from a methodological point of view because it permits us to observe natural language interaction between the human user and the computer-controlled system.

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  1. Department of Computer Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Adam Mickiewicz University, ul. Umultowska 87, 61614, Poznan, Poland

    Jacek Marciniak & Zygmunt Vetulani

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Marciniak, J., Vetulani, Z. Ontology of Spatial Concepts in a Natural Language Interface for a Mobile Robot. Applied Intelligence 17, 271–274 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1020039416483

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