Spoken Language Processing in a Conversational System for Child-Robot Interaction

Spoken Language Processing in a Conversational System for Child-Robot Interaction ■

Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayova, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Heriberto Cuayahuitl, Bernd Kiefer, Bernd Kiefer, Marc Schröder, Marc Schröder, Piero Cosi, Piero Cosi, Giulio Paci, Giulio Paci, Giacomo Sommavilla, Giacomo Sommavilla, Fabio Tesser, Fabio Tesser, Hichem Sahli, Hichem Sahli, Georgios Athanasopoulos, Georgios Athanasopoulos, Weiyi Wang, Weiyi Wang, Valentin Enescu, Valentin Enescu, Werner Verhelst, Werner Verhelst

Abstract ■

We describe a conversational system for child-robot interaction built with an event-based integration approach using the Nao robot platform with the Urbi middleware within the ALIZ-E project. Our integrated system includes components for the recognition, interpretation and generation of speech and gestures, dialogue management and user modeling. We describe our approach to processing spoken input and output and highlight some practical implementation issues. We also present preliminary results from experiments where young Italian users interacted with the system.