Embodied Language and Action

Papers from the 1995 Fall Symposium

Ian Horswill and Marilyn Walker Program Cochairs

Technical Report FS-95-05. Published by The AAAI Press, Menlo Park, California

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TRAINS as an Embodied Natural Language Dialog System / 1
James F. Allen, George Ferguson, Brad Miller and Eric Ringger

Multimodal User Supervised Interface and Intelligent Control (MUSIIC) / 5
Matthew Beitler, Zunaid Kazi, Marcos Salganicoff, Richard Foulds, Shoupu Chen and Daniel Chester

Recognizing and Interpreting Gestures within the Context of an Intelligent Robot Control Architecture / 12
R. Peter Bonasso, Eric Huber, and David Kortenkamp

Speech, Action and Gestures as Contest for Ongoing Task-oriented Talk / 20
Justine Cassell

Agent Interactions Through Coordinated Work / 26
Faouzi Daoud

Dialog with Agents in a Dynamic World / 32
David Duff and Susann Luperfoy

Toward Rational Communicative Behavior / 35
Piotr J. Gmytrasiewicz, Edmund H. Durfee, and Jeffrey Rosenschein

Finding Referents While Following Directions / 44
Andrew R. Eaas

Language as Part of Sensorimotor Behavior / 48
Ealan A. Henis and Stephen E. Levinson

Integrating Vision and Natural Language Without Central Models / 54
Ian Horswill

Reactive Natural Language Processing: Comprehension and Generation in the Air Combat Domain / 62
Jill Fain Lehman, Julie Van Dyke, and Nancy Green

Behavior-based Language Generation for Believeable Agents / 65
A. Bryan Loyall and Joseph Bates