Friday, October 14, 2011
3:30 PM
CSB 703
Ian Perera
Department of Computer Science, University of Rochester
Incorporating Pragmatic Inference for Understanding Commands in a Situated Environment
Abstract:
The goal of the SUBTLE (Situation Understanding Bot Through Language
and Environment) project is to develop an integrated system for a
robot that can respond to commands given by a person sharing its
environment and carry out various actions to accomplish both short- and
long-term goals. I will give an overview of the system and focus on the
semantic parsing and various pragmatic inference techniques used to
generate plans based on underspecified command parameters.