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Dialogue with Robots: Proposals for Broadening Participation and Research in the SLIVAR Community
Casey Kennington, Malihe Alikhani, Heather Pon-Barry +20
The ability to interact with machines using natural human language is becoming not just commonplace, but expected. The next step is not just text interfaces, but speech interfaces…
Learning to Generate Context-Sensitive Backchannel Smiles for Embodied AI Agents with Applications in Mental Health Dialogues
Maneesh Bilalpur, Mert Inan, Dorsa Zeinali +2
Addressing the critical shortage of mental health resources for effective screening, diagnosis, and treatment remains a significant challenge. This scarcity underscores the need fo…
Multimodal Contextualized Plan Prediction for Embodied Task Completion
Mert İnan, Aishwarya Padmakumar, Spandana Gella +2
Task planning is an important component of traditional robotics systems enabling robots to compose fine grained skills to perform more complex tasks. Recent work building systems f…
Zero-shot Cross-Linguistic Learning of Event Semantics
Malihe Alikhani, Thomas Kober, Bashar Alhafni +6
Typologically diverse languages offer systems of lexical and grammatical aspect that allow speakers to focus on facets of event structure in ways that comport with the specific com…