Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12 pp 383-391 | Cite as
A Topic Recognition System for Real World Human-Robot Conversations
Abstract
One of the main features of social robots is the ability to communicate and interact with people as partners in a natural way. However, achieving a good verbal interaction is a hard task due to the errors on speech recognition systems, and due to the understanting the natural language itself. This paper tries to overcome such kind of problems by presenting a system that enables social robots to get involved in conversation by recognizing its topic. Through the use of classical text mining approach, the presented system allows social robots to understand topics of conversation between human partners, enabling the customization of behaviours in their accordance. The system has been evaluated in different contexts, taking in account the quality and accuracy of the speech recognition syestem used by the social robot.
Keywords
Speech Recognition Humanoid Robot Term Frequency Social Robot Speech Recognition SystemPreview
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