Robert Porzel


2024

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A Benchmark for Recipe Understanding in Artificial Agents
Jens Nevens | Robin de Haes | Rachel Ringe | Mihai Pomarlan | Robert Porzel | Katrien Beuls | Paul van Eecke
Proceedings of the 2024 Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-COLING 2024)

This paper introduces a novel benchmark that has been designed as a test bed for evaluating whether artificial agents are able to understand how to perform everyday activities, with a focus on the cooking domain. Understanding how to cook recipes is a highly challenging endeavour due to the underspecified and grounded nature of recipe texts, combined with the fact that recipe execution is a knowledge-intensive and precise activity. The benchmark comprises a corpus of recipes, a procedural semantic representation language of cooking actions, qualitative and quantitative kitchen simulators, and a standardised evaluation procedure. Concretely, the benchmark task consists in mapping a recipe formulated in natural language to a set of cooking actions that is precise enough to be executed in the simulated kitchen and yields the desired dish. To overcome the challenges inherent to recipe execution, this mapping process needs to incorporate reasoning over the recipe text, the state of the simulated kitchen environment, common-sense knowledge, knowledge of the cooking domain, and the action space of a virtual or robotic chef. This benchmark thereby addresses the growing interest in human-centric systems that combine natural language processing and situated reasoning to perform everyday activities.

2018

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From sensors to sense: Integrated heterogeneous ontologies for Natural Language Generation
Mihai Pomarlan | Robert Porzel | John Bateman | Rainer Malaka
Proceedings of the Workshop on NLG for Human–Robot Interaction

We propose the combination of a robotics ontology (KnowRob) with a linguistically motivated one (GUM) under the upper ontology DUL. We use the DUL Event, Situation, Description pattern to formalize reasoning techniques to convert between a robot’s beliefstate and its linguistic utterances. We plan to employ these techniques to equip robots with a reason-aloud ability, through which they can explain their actions as they perform them, in natural language, at a level of granularity appropriate to the user, their query and the context at hand.

2006

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Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding
James Allen | Jan Alexandersson | Jerome Feldman | Robert Porzel
Proceedings of the Third Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding

2004

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Resolution of Lexical Ambiguities in Spoken Dialogue System
Berenike Loos | Robert Porzel
Proceedings of the 5th SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue at HLT-NAACL 2004

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Towards Measuring Scalability in Natural Language Understanding Tasks
Robert Porzel | Rainer Malaka
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding (ScaNaLU 2004) at HLT-NAACL 2004

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Making Relative Sense: From Word-graphs to Semantic Frames
Robert Porzel | Berenike Loos | Vanessa Micelli
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Scalable Natural Language Understanding (ScaNaLU 2004) at HLT-NAACL 2004

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The Tao of CHI: Towards Effective Human-Computer Interaction
Robert Porzel | Manja Baudis
Proceedings of the Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: HLT-NAACL 2004

2003

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Semantic Coherence Scoring Using an Ontology
Iryna Gurevych | Rainer Malaka | Robert Porzel | Hans-Peter Zorn
Proceedings of the 2003 Human Language Technology Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics

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Automatic Creation of Interface Specifications from Ontologies
Iryna Gurevych | Stefan Merten | Robert Porzel
Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Software Engineering and Architecture of Language Technology Systems (SEALTS)

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Less is More: Using a single knowledge representation in dialogue systems
Iryna Gurevych | Robert Porzel | Elena Slinko | Norbert Pfleger | Jan Alexandersson | Stefan Merten
Proceedings of the HLT-NAACL 2003 Workshop on Text Meaning

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Ontology-based Contextual Coherence Scoring
Robert Porzel | Iryna Gurevych | Christof E. Müller
Proceedings of the Fourth SIGdial Workshop of Discourse and Dialogue

2002

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Annotating the Semantic Consistency of Speech Recognition Hypotheses
Iryna Gurevych | Robert Porzel | Michael Strube
Proceedings of the Third SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue

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Towards Context-adaptive Utterance Interpretation
Robert Porzel | Iryna Gurevych
Proceedings of the Third SIGdial Workshop on Discourse and Dialogue