This paper presents a new corpus of dialogues in the domain of directory enquiries. We describe its collection and annotation process and then analyse feedback strategies employed by the dialogue participants focusing ...

A big challenge for the development situated agents is that they need to be capable of grounding real objects of their enviroment to representations with semantic meaning, so they can be comunicated to human agents using ...

Speech synthesis (text-to-speech, TTS) and speech recognition (automatic speech recognition, ASR) are the NLP technologies that are the least available for low-resource and indigenous languages. Lack of computational and ...

Type Theory with Records (TTR) provides accounts of a wide range of semantic and linguistic phenomena in a single framework. This work proposes a TTR model of perception and language. Utilizing PyTTR, a Python implementation ...

Embodied question answering is the task of asking a robot about objects in a 3D environment. The robot has to navigate the environment, find the entities in question, and then stop to answer the question. The answering ...

This thesis is a part of the virtual librarian project for the City Library Gothenburg (Stadsbibliotek Göteborg), which is a public city library. The objective of the project is to develop a virtual librarian using machine ...

In order for humans to have meaningful interactions with a robotic system, this system should be capable of grounding semantic representations to their real-world representations, learn spatial relationships and communicate ...

There is a recognised need for more research on the topic of emotion recognition from speech, and clear and defined methodology in this area is still lacking. Most studies in the field of emotional speech recognition and ...

Lexical semantic change (LSC) detection through the use of diachronic corpora and computational methods continues to be a prevalent research area in language change (Tahmasebi et al., 2018). However, there has not yet been ...

Introduction Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI) is a neurological condition characterized by cognitive decline greater than expected for an individual's age and education level. Subjective Cognitive Impairment (SCI) is a ...