Universität Bielefeld - Sonderforschungsbereich 360

Situated Communication with Robots*)

Jan-Torsten Milde, Kornelia Peters, Simone Strippgen

Abstract

In traditional human-computer dialogues, phenomena like ellipses, indirect speech acts and situated object or action references are often ignored. However, the situation is different if a human and a machine sense and act in a common environment. Under these circumstances new methods of language processing are needed. In the following, we analyse phenomena of situated communication that occur in human-robot instruction situations. We introduce a hybrid control architecture, which integrates language, perception and action in order to cope with those phenomena. The architecture allows to process action directioves on different levels of complexity and to achieve given tasks in a flexible and responsive manner.

*) This paper was presented at the First International Workshop on Human-Computer Conversation in Bellagio, Italy, 14-16 July, 1997.

Postscript-File (~97 k)

Anke Weinberger, 1998-01-13, 1998-01-20