Survey of the state of the art in natural language generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation

A Gatt, E Krahmer - Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 2018 - jair.org
This paper surveys the current state of the art in Natural Language Generation (NLG),
defined as the task of generating text or speech from non-linguistic input. A survey of NLG is …

[HTML][HTML] A review of verbal and non-verbal human–robot interactive communication

N Mavridis - Robotics and Autonomous Systems, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, an overview of human–robot interactive communication is presented, covering
verbal as well as non-verbal aspects. Following a historical introduction, and motivation …

Human–robot interaction: a survey

MA Goodrich, AC Schultz - Foundations and Trends® in …, 2008 - nowpublishers.com
Abstract Human–Robot Interaction (HRI) has recently received considerable attention in the
academic community, in labs, in technology companies, and through the media. Because of …

[PDF][PDF] Collective generation of natural image descriptions

P Kuznetsova, V Ordonez, A Berg… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - aclanthology.org
We present a holistic data-driven approach to image description generation, exploiting the
vast amount of (noisy) parallel image data and associated natural language descriptions …

Cognitive developmental robotics: A survey

M Asada, K Hosoda, Y Kuniyoshi… - IEEE transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cognitive developmental robotics (CDR) aims to provide new understanding of how
human's higher cognitive functions develop by means of a synthetic approach that …

Choosing words in computer-generated weather forecasts

E Reiter, S Sripada, J Hunter, J Yu, I Davy - Artificial Intelligence, 2005 - Elsevier
One of the main challenges in automatically generating textual weather forecasts is
choosing appropriate English words to communicate numeric weather data. A corpus-based …

[PDF][PDF] An architecture for data-to-text systems

E Reiter - proceedings of the eleventh European workshop on …, 2007 - aclanthology.org
Data-to-text systems are Natural Language Generation (NLG) systems which generate texts
from noninguistic inpūt data, such as sensordātā ānd event logs. Such systems need to …

Systems and methods for implicitly interpreting semantically redundant communication modes

EC Kaiser - US Patent 8,457,959, 2013 - Google Patents
(*) Notice: Subject to any disclaimer, the term of this 2005. O197843 A1* 9, 2005 Faisman et
al. TO4, 276 patent is extended or adjusted under 35 2005/0203738 A1* 9/2005 …

Learning to sportscast: a test of grounded language acquisition

DL Chen, RJ Mooney - Proceedings of the 25th international conference …, 2008 - dl.acm.org
We present a novel commentator system that learns language from sportscasts of simulated
soccer games. The system learns to parse and generate commentaries without any …

Semiotic schemas: A framework for grounding language in action and perception

D Roy - Artificial Intelligence, 2005 - Elsevier
A theoretical framework for grounding language is introduced that provides a computational
path from sensing and motor action to words and speech acts. The approach combines …