Documents

 

The book of proceedings is available [pdf: 11.2 Mb] [rar: 9.66 Mb]

You might also like to check this post-symposium summary

 

Final program and schedule

 

 

Monday

10 December 2007

8:30

Reception/registration

9:30

Welcome

Luís Seabra Lopes

Universidade de Aveiro

9:40

Opening discussion

Stephen Cowley

University of Hertfordshire & University of KwaZulu-Natal

10:00

Invited Talk: Circuit sharing for action-grounded meaning

Michael Anderson

University of Maryland

11:00

Coffee break

11:20

How words become cognitive

Rob Clowes, Carlos Herrera, Martin McGinnity, Tom Ziemke

University of Ulster + University of Skövde

11:50

Language and the person problem

Stephen J. Cowley

University of Hertfordshire & University of KwaZulu-Natal

12:20

Lunch

14:00

Invited Talk: Towards a Mechanistic Model of Referential Semantics

Deb Roy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

15:00

Towards Generating Referring Expressions in a Mobile Robot Scenario

Hendrik Zender and Geert-Jan M. Kruijff

Saarbrücken University

15:30

A constraint-based model of grounded compositional semantics

Wouter J. M.Van den Broeck

Sony Computer Science Laboratory

16:00

Coffee break

16:20

Towards Speech-based Human-Robot Interaction

Roger K. Moore

University of Sheffield

16:50

Speech Perception as Non-symbolic Pattern Recognition

Simon F. Worgan and Robert I. Damper

University of Southampton

17:20

Early Speech Development of a Humanoid Robot using Babbling and Lip Tracking

Jonas Hörnstein, Cláudia Soares, José Santos-Victor and Alexandre Bernardino

Instituto Superior Técnico

 17:50

End of day

 

 

Tuesday

11 December 2007

9:00

Invited Talk: Fluid Language Games and the Emergence of Grammar

Luc Steels

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

10:00

Allow me to pick your brain: how language and thought can be shared between robots

Tony Belpaeme

University of Plymouth

10:30

Coffee break

10:50

Crossmodal Content Binding in Information-Processing Architectures

Henrik Jacobsson, Nick Hawes, Geert-Jan Kruijff, Jeremy Wyatt

DFKI + University of Birmingham

11:20

Incremental, multi-level processing for comprehending situated dialogue in human-robot interaction

Geert-Jan M. Kruijff, Pierre Lison, Trevor Benjamin, Henrik Jacobsson and Nick Hawes

Saarbrücken University + Saarland University + University of Birmingham

11:50

Producing Believable Robot Gaze When Comprehending Visually Situated Dialogue

Geert-Jan M. Kruijff1 and Maria Staudte

Saarland University

12:20

Lunch

14:00

Invited Talk: Grammar as System of Second-order Cultural Constraints on Action and Perception

Paul Thibault

Agder University College, Norway

14:45

Meaning in the timing? The emergence of complex pointing patterns

Katharina J. Rohlfing and Stefan Kopp

Bielefeld University

15:15

Robots that inhabit the human worldHerrera, Carlos, Rob Clowes, Martin McGinnity, Tom Ziemke

15:45

Coffee break

16:05

Poster session

16:30

Learning User Models with Limited Reinforcement: An Adaptive Human-Robot Interaction System

Finale Doshi and Nicholas Roy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

17:00

Constructing an Interactive Behavioral On-line Operation System for Humanoid Robots Using Natural Language Instructions

Neo Ee Sian, Takeshi Sakaguchi, Kazuhito Yokoi

National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan

17:30

End of day

20:00

Symposium dinner

 

Wednesday

12 December 2007

9:00

Invited Talk: Towards Learning by Interacting

Gerhard Sagerer

Bielefeld University

10:00

Scaling up category learning for language acquisition in human-robot interaction

Luís Seabra Lopes and Aneesh Chauhan

Universidade de Aveiro

10:30

Interactive Learning and Cross-Modal Binding - A Combined Approach

Henrik Jacobsson, Nick Hawes, Danijel Skocaj, Geert-Jan M. Kruijff

DFKI + University of Birmingham + University of Ljubljana

11:00

Coffee break

11:20

Closing discussion

Tony Belpaeme

University of Plymouth

12:20 End of symposium

 

 

 

 

Poster session - 11 December 2007 - 16:05-16:30

Mapping the vocal tract with a 2d vocalic articulatory space: applications to developmental robotics
Cláudia Soares, Alexandre Bernardino

Instituto Superior Técnico

Maximum Entropy Statistical Modeling of Sensor Data from Robotic Systems
Daniel Burfoot and Yasuo Kuniyoshi
The University of Tokyo

Neural Associative Memories for Language Understanding and Action Planning in a Robotics Scenario
Heiner Markert, Ulrich Kaufmann, Zoehre Kara Kayikci, and Günther Palm
University of Ulm

Multi-Robot Interaction using Finite State Grammars
João Xavier and Urbano Nunes
University of Coimbra

Acquisition and Exchange of Knowledge From Real to Virtual Embodiment
Jörg Irran, Gregor Sieber, Marcin Skowron, Brigitte Krenn
Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence