Evaluating Description and Reference Strategies in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System

Foster, Mary Ellen; Giuliani, Manuel; Isard, Amy; Matheson, Colin; Oberlander, Jon; Knoll, Alois C.

Evaluating Description and Reference Strategies in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System

Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, Alois C. Knoll

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Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Pages 1818-1822.

Abstract

We present a human-robot dialogue system that enables a robot to work together with a human user to build wooden construction toys. We then describe a study which assessed the responses of naive users to output that varied along two dimensions: the method of describing an assembly plan (pre-order or post-order), and the method of referring to objects in the world (basic and full). Varying both of these factors produced significant results: subjects using the system that employed a pre-order description strategy asked for instructions to be repeated significantly less often than those who experienced the post-order strategy, while the subjects who heard references generated by the full reference strategy judged the robot's instructions to be significantly more understandable than did those who heard the output of the basic strategy.Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, Alois Knoll

Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, and Alois C. Knoll. 2009. Evaluating Description and Reference Strategies in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System. In Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-09. IJCAI, 1818–1822. https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2009/302

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  title     = {Evaluating Description and Reference Strategies in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System},
  author    = {Foster, Mary Ellen and Giuliani, Manuel and Isard, Amy and Matheson, Colin and Oberlander, Jon and Knoll, Alois C.},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twenty-First International Joint Conference on
               Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-09}},
  publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
  editor    = {Hiroaki Kitano},
  pages     = {1818--1822},
  year      = {2009},
  url       = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/2009/302},
}

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