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The State of SLIVAR: What's next for robots, human-robot interaction, and (spoken) dialogue systems?
Casey Kennington
We synthesize the reported results and recommendations of recent workshops and seminars that convened to discuss open questions within the important intersection of robotics, human…
An Analysis of the Recent Visibility of the SigDial Conference
Casey Kennington, McKenzie Steenson
Automated speech and text interfaces are continuing to improve, resulting in increased research in the area of dialogue systems. Moreover, conferences and workshops from various fi…
Language Acquisition is Embodied, Interactive, Emotive: a Research Proposal
Casey Kennington
Humans' experience of the world is profoundly multimodal from the beginning, so why do existing state-of-the-art language models only use text as a modality to learn and represent…
Composing and Embedding the Words-as-Classifiers Model of Grounded Semantics
Daniele Moro, Stacy Black, Casey Kennington
The words-as-classifiers model of grounded lexical semantics learns a semantic fitness score between physical entities and the words that are used to denote those entities. In this…
Incrementalizing RASA's Open-Source Natural Language Understanding Pipeline
Andrew Rafla, Casey Kennington
As spoken dialogue systems and chatbots are gaining more widespread adoption, commercial and open-sourced services for natural language understanding are emerging. In this paper, w…
Symbol, Conversational, and Societal Grounding with a Toy Robot
Casey Kennington, Sarah Plane
Essential to meaningful interaction is grounding at the symbolic, conversational, and societal levels. We present ongoing work with Anki's Cozmo toy robot as a research platform wh…