Dialogue with Robots aims to bring researchers together to discuss topics around human-AI communcation. This workshop will continue the momentum from two 2019 NSF-funded workshops and a 2020 Dagstuhl Seminar that brought together researchers in speech, natural language processing, robotics, and human-robot interaction to determine the challenges and opportunities of spoken interaction with robots. We have identified the following topics for discussion and action:
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Research platforms for robots+spoken dialogue systems
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Collection of situated and multimodal corpora
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Multimodality: which modalities (beyond vision) are necessary, how to capture and leverage them?
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Natural language understanding in co-located, situated, multimodal systems
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Natural language generation in co-located, situated, multimodal systems
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Representation of the state of the world, robot, and human interlocutor, and building of common ground
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Dialogue with robots: clarification, turn-taking, handling ambiguity
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Identifying ethical issues surrounding human-robot dialogue
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What should a robotics researcher know when they want to add the ability to talk to their robots, and visa-versa?
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Identify and plan tasks and benchmarks
Dialogue with Robots
April 7 & 8 @University of Pittsburgh
Organizers
Casey Kennington
Boise State University
Malihe Alikhani
University of Pittsburgh