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Commonsense-enhanced Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction

Gkatzia, Dimitra

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Commonsense is vital for human communication, as it allows us to make inferences without explicitly mentioning the context. Equipping robots with commonsense knowledge would lead to better communication between humans and robots and will allow robots to be introduced in real-world environments. However, this is an extremely hard task due to the complex interdisciplinary nature of the problem, which spans across several fields including natural language generation, reasoning, computer vision and robotics. Addressing this challenge will unlock a plethora of opportunities for assistive and care robotics, service robotics and novel educational and training applications, to tackle immediate challenges such as caring for the elderly population, upscale skills, automate tasks and increase productivity. This paper proposes the Robot-Commonsense challenge that goes beyond traditional multi-modal interaction (vi-sion, deictic gestures, language, gaze) and focuses on incorporating commonsense knowledge to enhance human-robot interaction.

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Gkatzia, D. (2020). Commonsense-enhanced Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction. In 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2020)

Conference Name 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2020)
Conference Location Online
Start Date Dec 18, 2020
Acceptance Date Feb 21, 2020
Publication Date 2020
Deposit Date Mar 11, 2020
Publicly Available Date Mar 29, 2024
Book Title 2nd Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2020)
Keywords human-robot interaction; commonsense; communication; robotics
Public URL http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/2627402
Related Public URLs https://hbuschme.github.io/nlg-hri-workshop-2020/

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