— For a robot to be able to first understand and then achieve a human’s goals, it must be able to reason about a) the context of the current situation (with respect to which i...
Situated, spontaneous speech may be ambiguous along acoustic, lexical, grammatical and semantic dimensions. To understand such a seemingly difficult signal, we propose to model th...
We present the development of and experiment with a robot system showing cognitive capabilities of children of three to four years. We focus on two topics: assembly by two hands a...
Engineering diagnosis often involves analyzing complex records of system states printed to large, textual log files. Typically the logs are designed to accommodate the widest debug...
Natural language processing technology has developed remarkably, but it is still difficult for computers to understand contextual meanings as humans do. The purpose of our work ha...