An Nlp-Based Approach for Improving Human-Robot Interaction

Abstract

This study aims to explore the possibility of improving human-robot interaction (HRI) by exploiting natural language resources and using natural language processing (NLP) methods. The theoretical basis of the study rests on the claim that effective and efficient human robot interaction requires linguistic and ontological agreement. A further claim is that the required ontology is implicitly present in the lexical and grammatical structure of natural language. The paper offers some NLP techniques to uncover (fragments of) the ontology hidden in natural language and to generate semantic representations of natural language sentences using that ontology. The paper also presents the implementation details of an NLP module capable of parsing English and Turkish along with an overview of the architecture of a robotic interface that makes use of this module for expressing the spatial motions of objects observed by a robot.

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“…On the other hand, Kilicaslan and Tuna [ 29 ] explored the use of NLP resources to improve human-robot interaction through the use of ontologies that represent the grammatical and lexical structures of the language. Implementations have been generated for English and Turkish languages to allow the robot to express the spatial motions of observed objects.…”

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“…Natural language processing is another AI sub-field that is very useful in robotics and HRI. Effective and efficient HRI requires linguistic and ontological agreement 85 . NLP helps robots solve human language references to the real world application contexts.…”

Açık Kaynak Kod Türkçe Doğal Dil İşleme Kütüphanelerinin Robotik Uygulamalarda Kullanımı

“…Robotlar, ev işlerinde, sağlık sektöründe, eğitim alanında, ofis binalarında, değişik hizmet alanlarında, seri üretim hatlarında olmak üzere günlük hayatın hemen hemen her alanında * Sorumlu yazar: karam@fsm.edu.tr kullanılmaya başlanmıştır. Özellikle insan ile iletişimin yoğun olunduğu alanlarda kullanım gittikçe artmaktadır (Asif & Yannier, 2003 (Yang, Park, Lee, & Member, 2007) ve doğal dillerin kullanımı verilebilir (Kılıçaslan & Tuna, 2015). Doğal Dil İşleme (DDİ) , temel olarak bir doğal dili işleyerek onu anlayabilen ve yorumlayabilen bilgisayar sistemlerinin tasarımını inceleyen bir bilim dalı ve dil biliminin bir alt alanıdır (Çakıroğlu & Özyurt, 2006).…”