An Hybrid Approach for Spoken Natural Language Understanding Applied to a Mobile Intelligent Robot

摘要

The greater sophistication and complexity of machines increases the necessity to equip them with human friendly interfaces. As we know, voice is the main support for human-human communication, so it is desirable to interact with machines, namely robots, using voice. In this paper we present the recent evolution of the Natural Language Understanding capabilities of Carl, our mobile intelligent robot capable of interacting with humans using spoken natural language. The new design is based on a hybrid approach, combining a robust parser with Memory Based Learning. This hybrid architecture is capable of performing deep analysis if the sentence is (almost) completely accepted by the grammar, and capable of performing a shallow analysis if the sentence has severe errors.