Title :
Understanding referring expressions involving perceptual grouping
Author :
Funakoshi, Kotaro ; Watanabe, Satoru ; Tokunaga, Takenobu ; Kuriyama, Naoko
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci., Tokyo Inst. of Technol.
Abstract :
This paper deals with understanding referring expressions involving perceptual grouping. The ability to use referring expressions is important for conversational agents aimed at real-world interaction. We conducted a psychological experiment to collect referring expressions involving perceptual grouping. A set of methods to identify referents based on the collected data are presented. We were able to identify 78.8% of the referents in the collected expressions
Keywords :
software agents; speech processing; conversational agents; perceptual grouping; psychological experiment; real-world interaction; referents identification; understanding referring expression; Algorithm design and analysis; Computer science; Data mining; Humans; Information analysis; Psychology;
Conference_Titel :
Cyberworlds, 2005. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Singapore
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2378-1
