Reference in Robotics: a Givenness Hierarchy Theoretic Approach

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  • Tom Williams
  • Matthias Scheutz
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As robots become increasingly prevalent in our society, it becomes increasingly important to endow them with natural language capabilities. Natural language capabilities are especially important for robots designed to operate in domains such as eldercare robotics, education robotics, space robotics, and urban search-and-rescue robotics. In eldercare robotics and education robotics, it may simply be too cognitively burdensome for the target population to learn to interact with their would-be caregiving or educational assistants through some other modality. In space robotics and urban search-and-rescue robotics, it may be too physically burdensome for the target population to interact with their would-be assistants or rescuers, due to, e.g., lack of gravity, or trapped limbs. In urban search-and-rescue

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تاریخ انتشار 2017