Understanding referring expression in dialogue with embodied agents

• Project/Area Number: 19500116
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Single-year Grants
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Intelligent informatics
• Research Institution: Tokyo Institute of Technology
• Principal Investigator: TOKUNAGA Takenobu Tokyo Institute of Technology, 大学院・情報理工学研究科, 教授 (20197875)
• Project Period (FY): 2007 – 2008
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2008)
• Budget Amount: ¥4,550,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥1,050,000); Fiscal Year 2008: ¥1,430,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,100,000、Indirect Cost: ¥330,000); Fiscal Year 2007: ¥3,120,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000、Indirect Cost: ¥720,000)
• Keywords: 自然言語処理 / 対話システム / 対話 / 参照表現 / 空間語 / 属性選択 / 空間関係 / 知覚的群化 / エージェント / インクリメンタルアルゴリズム

Research Abstract

心理学実験によって人間の空間認知の基礎データを収集し, それを基に日本語の空間語の意味を与える計算モデルを提案した. これは, 従来のモデルで考慮している参照物体, 指示物体に妨害物体の概念を導入した新しいモデルである.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 空間語選択における幾何的要因の影響 (2008)
  • Author(s): 小林竜己, 寺井あすか, 徳永健伸
  • Journal Title: 認知科学 Vol.15.No.1 Pages: 144-160
  • NAID: 10021163737
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] 寺井あすか. 比喩理解のための言語処理 (2008)
  • Author(s): 徳永健伸
  • Journal Title: 月刊「言語」 Vol.37. No.8 Pages: 46-53
• [Journal Article] 比喩理解のための言語処理 (2008)
  • Author(s): 徳永健伸, 寺井あすか
  • Journal Title: 月刊「言語」 37 Pages: 46-53
• [Journal Article] 空間語選択における幾何学的要因の影響 (2008)
  • Author(s): 小林竜己, 寺井あすか, 徳永健伸
  • Journal Title: 認知科学 15 Pages: 144-160
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] A Japanese Corpus ofReferring Expressions Used in a SituatedCollaboration Task (2009)
  • Author(s): Philipp Spanger (発表者), Yasuhara Masaaki, IidaRyu, Tokunaga Takenobu
  • Organizer: Proceedings of the 12thEuropean Workshop on Natural LanguageGeneration (ENLG 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Athens
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-31
• [Presentation] A ProbabilisticModel of Referring Expressions for ComplexObjects (2009)
  • Author(s): Kotaro Funakoshi (発表者), Philipp Spanger, MikioNakano, Takenobu Tokunaga
  • Organizer: Proceedings of the 12th EuropeanWorkshop on Natural Language Generation(ENLG 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Athens
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-31
• [Presentation] A Japanese Corpus of Referring Expressions Used in a Situated Collaboration Task (2009)
  • Author(s): Philipp Spanger, Yasuhara Masaaki, Iida Ryu, Tokunaga Takenobu
  • Organizer: The 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Athens, Greece
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-30
• [Presentation] A Probabilistic Model of Referring Expressions for Complex Objects (2009)
  • Author(s): Kotaro Funakoshi, Philipp Spanger, Mikio Nakano, Takenobu Tokunaga
  • Organizer: The 12th European Workshop on Natural Language Generation (ENLG 2009)
  • Place of Presentation: Athens, Greece
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-30
• [Presentation] 協調作業対話で用いられる参照表現の収集と分析 (2009)
  • Author(s): 安原正晃 (発表者), Philipp Spanger, 飯田龍, 徳永健伸
  • Organizer: 言語処理学会第15回年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 鳥取
  • Year and Date: 2009-03-05
• [Presentation] On"redundancy" in selectingattributes for generating referring expressions. COLING 2008 (2008)
  • Author(s): Philipp Spanger (発表者), Kurosawa Takehiro,Tokunaga Takenobu
  • Organizer: Companion volume-Posters andDemonstrations
  • Place of Presentation: Manchester
  • Year and Date: 2008-08-18
• [Presentation] On "redundancy" in selecting attributes for generating referring expressions (2008)
  • Author(s): Philipp Spanger, Kurosawa Takehiro, Tokunaga Takenobu
  • Organizer: The 22^<nd> International Conference on Computational Linguistics (Coling 2008)
  • Place of Presentation: Manchester, UK
  • Year and Date: 2008-08-18
• [Presentation] Bernadette Sharp andMichael Zock. The role of attention inunderstanding spatial expressions under distractorcondition (2008)
  • Author(s): Tatsumi Kobayashi ( 発表者), Asuka Terai,Takenobu Tokunaga
  • Organizer: Proceedings of the 5th InternationalWorkshop on Natural Language Processing andCognitive Science (NLPCS 2008)
  • Place of Presentation: Barcelona
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-12
• [Presentation] The role of attention in understanding spatial expressions under distractor condition (2008)
  • Author(s): Tatsumi Kobayashi, Asuka Terai, Takenobu Tokunaga
  • Organizer: the 5^<th> International Workshop on Natural Language Processing and Cognitive Science
  • Place of Presentation: Barcelona, Spain
  • Year and Date: 2008-06-12
• [Presentation] 参照表現の生成における属性選択 (2008)
  • Author(s): 黒澤崇浩(発表者), Philipp Spanger, 徳永健伸
  • Organizer: 言語処理学会第14回年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京
  • Year and Date: 2008-03-19
• [Presentation] 幾何的要因に基づく空間語選択モデルに関する考察 (2008)
  • Author(s): 小林竜己(発表者), 寺井あすか, 徳永健伸
  • Organizer: 言語処理学会第14回年次大会
  • Place of Presentation: 東京
  • Year and Date: 2008-03-19
• [Presentation] Onthe representation of perceptual knowledge forunderstanding reference expressions (2008)
  • Author(s): Philipp Spanger (発表者), Takenobu Tokunaga
  • Organizer: Large-ScaleKnowledge Resources. Springer-Verlag
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo
  • Year and Date: 2008-03-04
• [Presentation] On the representation of perceptual knowledge for understanding reference expressions (2008)
  • Author(s): Philipp Spanger, Tokunaga Takenobu
  • Organizer: The 3rd International Conference on Large-scale Knowledge Resources(LKR2008)
  • Place of Presentation: 東京
  • Year and Date: 2008-03-04
• [Presentation] Anja Belz and SebastianVarges. TITCH : Attribute selection based ondiscrimination power and frequency (2007)
  • Author(s): Philipp Spanger, Kurosawa Takahiro, TokunagaTakenobu (発表者)
  • Organizer: Proceedingsof the MT Summit XI Workshop : Using Corporafor Natural Langauge Generation
  • Place of Presentation: Copenhagen
  • Year and Date: 2007-09-17
• [Presentation] TITCH: Attribute selection based on discrimination power and frequency (2007)
  • Author(s): Philipp Spanger, Kurosawa Takahiro, Tokunaga Takenobu
  • Organizer: The MT Summit XI Workshop: Using Corpora for Natural Langauge Generation
  • Place of Presentation: Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Year and Date: 2007-09-11
• [Presentation] Onperceptual grouping of reference expressions (2007)
  • Author(s): Philipp Spanger (発表者), Tokunaga Takenobu
  • Organizer: IPSJSIG Technical Reports
  • Place of Presentation: Tokusima
  • Year and Date: 2007-07-24
• [Presentation] On perceptual grouping of reference expressions (2007)
  • Author(s): Philipp Spanger, Tokunaga Takenobu
  • Organizer: 情報処理学会 自然言語処理研究会
  • Place of Presentation: 徳島
  • Year and Date: 2007-07-24
• [Presentation] Dimensions ofDialogue (2007)
  • Author(s): Tokunaga Takenobu (発表者)
  • Organizer: First International Symposium onUnivesal Communication
  • Place of Presentation: Kyoto
  • Year and Date: 2007-06-14
• [Presentation] An empirical study on detection and prediction of topic shifts in information seeking chats (2007)
  • Author(s): Ichikawa Hiroshi, Tokunaga Takenobu
  • Organizer: The 11th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue(DECALOG 2007)
  • Place of Presentation: Rovereto, Italy
  • Year and Date: 2007-05-30
• [Presentation] An empirical study on detection and prediction oftopic shifts in information seeking chats (2007)
  • Author(s): Ichikawa Hiroshi (発表者), Tokunaga Takenobu
  • Organizer: Proceedings of the 11th Workshop on theSemantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue(DECALOG 2007)
  • Place of Presentation: Rovereto
  • Year and Date: 2007-03-30
• [Book] 共同問題解決におけるメタファーの役割. メタファー研究の最前線 (2007)
  • Author(s): 栗山直子, 船越孝太郎, 徳永健伸, 楠見孝. 楠見孝
  • Publisher: ひつじ書房
• [Book] 共同問題解決におけるメタファーの役割(メタファー研究の最前線の一章) (2007)
  • Author(s): 栗山直子, 船越孝太郎, 徳永健伸, 楠見孝.楠見孝
  • Total Pages: 555
  • Publisher: ひつじ書房
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