Suna Bensch gave a presentation about social robots at Kafe Station in Umeå. Vetenskapsluncher is a series of popular science presentations organized by Umeå University (https://www.umu.se/nyheter/europa-i-fokus-pa-varens-livesanda-vetenskapsluncher-_7483184/). In her presentation she focused on language and dialogue processing techniques and difficulties for social robots.
Thomas Hellström (LPCN) teaching robots to act and communicate
Professor Thomas Hellström’s research deals with teaching robots to act and to communicate. One of his projects deals with developing methods for intention recognition from verbal utterances. Here’s a video about Thomas Hellström and his research.
LPCN blogs about AI
LPCN member Suna Bensch blogged two weeks on the Umeå University website about Artificial Intelligence (AI). Her first blog post was about two almost opposing methodological approaches in AI, embedded into childhood memories about the autonomous car with language capabilities KITT.
2nd SOCRATES workshop
LPCN members Michele Persiani and Maitreyee Tewari present their work at the 2nd SOCRATES workshop in Israel.
New publication: Essays dedicated to Helmut Jürgensen
Suna Bensch (LPCN) and Henning Bordihn edited a special issue in the Journal of Automata, Languages and Combinatorics, dedicated to Professor Helmut Jürgensen on the occasion of his 75th birthday and in appreciation of his scientific work and his impact as teacher, mentor, and person. Among the sixteen papers in this special issue is the paper “The Output Size Problem for String-to-Tree Transducers” by Martin Berglund (LPCN), Frank Drewes (LPCN) and Brink van der Merwe.
LPCN presentations at umedev
Suna Bensch and Henrik Björklund gave presentations at the umedev IT conference 2018.
Suna Bensch was one of the keynote speakers, and gave a much appreciated presentation on dialogue systems:
Hilda checks out our robotics lab
Hilda and her mother recently visited our robotics lab. Hilda operated the Double robot through our corridors and met one of our Pepper robots. Hilda is interested in robots and technology, and wanted us to teach the robot more words such that it understands more and is more interactive. We are working on it until your next visit!