ALGORITHMS OF HUMAN-ROBOT DIALOGUE AND THEIR IMPLEMENTATION ON NAO HUMANOID ROBOTS

Authors

  • Olga Alexandrovna Turbina South Ural State University
  • Evgeniy Andreevich Fostakovsky South Ural State University

Keywords:

algorithm, humanoid robot, human-robot dialogue, dialogue system

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the urgent problem of spoken human-robot dialogue. The
authors give an outline of theoretical and applied research in this sphere. The outline includes
the classification of existing algorithms of spoken human-robot dialogue, the criterion
being their complexity

Author Biographies

Olga Alexandrovna Turbina, South Ural State University

Ph.D., professor, head of the General Linguistics Department, South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk), E-mail: toa@susu.ac.ru

Evgeniy Andreevich Fostakovsky, South Ural State University

postgraduate student at the General Linguistics Department, South Ural State University (Chelyabinsk), scientific adviser – professor Turbina O.A. E-mail: fostakovsky9004@gmail.ru

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