Antoine Raux

About

Antoine Raux is a leading researcher in situated language understanding and human-robot interaction, whose work has fundamentally shaped how machines communicate in dynamic, real-world environments. His research focuses on developing spoken dialogue systems that operate effectively in rapidly changing contexts, particularly within moving vehicles and robotic platforms. Raux’s most influential contribution is his pioneering approach to situated language understanding at high speeds, as demonstrated in his landmark paper “Situated Language Understanding at 25 Miles per Hour” (2014, 19 citations), where he proposed novel methods for interpreting user queries about specific target buildings from a moving car—a challenge that previous studies had not addressed. He also developed the Human-Robot Interaction Toolkit (HRItk, 2012, 10 citations), a widely used framework for building speech-centric interactive systems within ROS, significantly lowering the barrier for integrating spoken dialogue into robotics. His work on action corrections in situated interaction (2010, 7 citations) advanced automatic detection of correction utterances, a key component for fluid human-robot communication. As co-editor of special issues on Dialogue with Robots (2011) and Machine Learning for Multiple Modalities (2014), Raux has helped define the research agenda for multimodal, situated dialogue systems, leaving a lasting impact on both academic research and practical deployment.

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Top Papers

1. 1
   Dialog with robots : papers from the AAAI Fall Symposium

   20 citations · 2010
2. 2
   Situated Language Understanding at 25 Miles per Hour

   19 citations · 2014
3. 3
   Situated language understanding for a spoken dialog system within vehicles

   12 citations · 2015
4. 4
   HRItk: The Human-Robot Interaction ToolKit Rapid Development of Speech-Centric Interactive Systems in ROS

   10 citations · 2012
5. 5
   The Dynamics of Action Corrections in Situated Interaction

   7 citations · 2010
6. 6
   Introduction to the Special Issue on Dialogue with Robots

   4 citations · 2011
7. 7
   Introduction to the Special Issue on Machine Learning for Multiple Modalities in Interactive Systems and Robots

   4 citations · 2014

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