Informatisches Kolloquium Wintersemester 2007/2008

Montag, 5. November 2007

Dr. Markus Guhe
University of Edinburgh

Adapting Generation of Multimodal Referring Expressions to Properties of the Task Environment

Conventional accounts of the generation of referring expressions use static algorithms, and it is generally assumed that the `right' algorithm one day will be able to generate appropriate references in all contexts and environments. I argue that this is not the whole story, because such algorithms are not sensitive to the properties of the task environment. I will, firstly, describe a project on joint action between a human and a robot, which allows the robot to refer to an object by picking it up. Secondly, I will describe a new version of the Map Task in which the participants adapt their referring expressions to properties of the landmarks on the maps.

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