A farewell to arms: Non-verbal communication for non-humanoid robots

no code implementations • WS 2018 • Aaron G. Cass, Kristina Striegnitz, Nick Webb

Human-robot interactions situated in a dynamic environment create a unique mix of challenges for conversational systems.

Position Text Generation

Automatic Expansion of the MRC Psycholinguistic Database Imageability Ratings

no code implementations • LREC 2014 • Ting Liu, Kit Cho, G. Aaron Broadwell, Samira Shaikh, Tomek Strzalkowski, John Lien, Sarah Taylor, Laurie Feldman, Boris Yamrom, Nick Webb, Umit Boz, Ignacio Cases, Ching-Sheng Lin

Unfortunately, word imageability ratings were collected for only a limited number of words: 9, 240 words in English, 6, 233 in Spanish; and are unavailable at all in the other two languages studied: Russian and Farsi.

Revealing Contentious Concepts Across Social Groups

no code implementations • LREC 2012 • Ching-Sheng Lin, Zumrut Akcam, Samira Shaikh, Sharon Small, Ken Stahl, Tomek Strzalkowski, Nick Webb

The hypothesis of this work is that there are communities or groups which can be characterized by a network of concepts and the corresponding valuations of those concepts that are agreed upon by the members of the community.