Evaluating natural language understanding services for conversational question answering systems

D Braun, AH Mendez, F Matthes… - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2017 - aclanthology.org
Conversational interfaces recently gained a lot of attention. One of the reasons for the
current hype is the fact that chatbots (one particularly popular form of conversational …

Training agents with interactive reinforcement learning and contextual affordances

F Cruz, S Magg, C Weber… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the future, robots will be used more extensively as assistants in home scenarios and must
be able to acquire expertise from trainers by learning through crossmodal interaction. One …

Interactive reinforcement learning through speech guidance in a domestic scenario

F Cruz, J Twiefel, S Magg, C Weber… - 2015 international joint …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recently robots are being used more frequently as assistants in domestic scenarios. In this
context we train an apprentice robot to perform a cleaning task using interactive …

The impact of personalisation on human-robot interaction in learning scenarios

N Churamani, P Anton, M Brügger… - Proceedings of the 5th …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
Advancements in Human-Robot Interaction involve robots being more responsive and
adaptive to the human user they are interacting with. For example, robots model a …

Enhanced robot speech recognition using biomimetic binaural sound source localization

J Dávila-Chacón, J Liu… - IEEE transactions on …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Inspired by the behavior of humans talking in noisy environments, we propose an embodied
embedded cognition approach to improve automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for …

[HTML][HTML] Emergence of multimodal action representations from neural network self-organization

GI Parisi, J Tani, C Weber, S Wermter - Cognitive Systems Research, 2017 - Elsevier
The integration of multisensory information plays a crucial role in autonomous robotics to
forming robust and meaningful representations of the environment. In this work, we …

An immersive investment game to study human-robot trust

S Zörner, E Arts, B Vasiljevic, A Srivastava… - Frontiers in Robotics …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
As robots become more advanced and capable, developing trust is an important factor of
human-robot interaction and cooperation. However, as multiple environmental and social …

Multi-modal feedback for affordance-driven interactive reinforcement learning

F Cruz, GI Parisi, S Wermter - 2018 international joint …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Interactive reinforcement learning (IRL) extends traditional reinforcement learning (RL) by
allowing an agent to interact with parent-like trainers during a task. In this paper, we present …

Multi-modal integration of dynamic audiovisual patterns for an interactive reinforcement learning scenario

F Cruz, GI Parisi, J Twiefel… - 2016 IEEE/RSJ …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robots in domestic environments are receiving more attention, especially in scenarios
where they should interact with parent-like trainers for dynamically acquiring and refining …

Unmanned aerial vehicle control through domain-based automatic speech recognition

R Contreras, A Ayala, F Cruz - Computers, 2020 - mdpi.com
Currently, unmanned aerial vehicles, such as drones, are becoming a part of our lives and
extend to many areas of society, including the industrialized world. A common alternative for …