Utterance Interpretation and Actual Intentions

Towards Context-adaptive Utterance Interpretation

Fertility intentions and actual fertility: A complex relationship

Editorial – Fertility intentions and actual fertility: A complex relationship • Fertility intentions: a hesitant majority... p. 1 • ...which accounts for 45% of births p. 2 • Intentions, a factor among many others p. 2 • No differences between cohabiting and married couples p. 3 • The highly educated anticipate better p. 4 Box 1 – The survey on fertility intentions p.2 • Box 2 – The questions a...

Incremental interpretation and prediction of utterance meaning for interactive dialogue

We present techniques for the incremental interpretation and prediction of utterance meaning in dialogue systems. These techniques open possibilities for systems to initiate responsive overlap behaviors during user speech, such as interrupting, acknowledging, or completing a user’s utterance while it is still in progress. In an implemented system, we show that relatively high accuracy can be ac...

Towards the Interpretation of Utterance Sequences in a Dialogue System

This paper describes a probabilistic mechanism for the interpretation of sentence sequences developed for a spoken dialogue system mounted on a robotic agent. The mechanism receives as input a sequence of sentences, and produces an interpretation which integrates the interpretations of individual sentences. For our evaluation, we collected a corpus of hypothetical requests to a robot. Our mecha...

Interpretation and Communication of Pedestrian Intentions Using Braid Groups

We present a novel framework for socially competent pedestrian navigation based on understanding pedestrians’ intentions and planning intent-expressive robot motion. We model pedestrians’ intentions as combinations of intended topological routes and intended destinations. The core of this approach is a novel topological representation of a pedestrian scene, based on braid groups. This represent...