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NL Seminar- Shiwali Mohan: "Learning Hierarchical Tasks from Situated Interactive Instruction"

Speaker: Shiwali Mohan, University of Michigan

Talk Title: "Learning Hierarchical Tasks from Situated Interactive Instruction"

Series: Natural Language Seminar

Abstract: Our research aims at building interactive robots and agent that can expand their knowledge by interacting with human users. In this talk, I will give an overview of our ongoing work on learning novel tasks from linguistic, mixed-initiative instructions. The first part of the talk will address the problems of situated language comprehension for cognitive agents in real-world environments. The second part will focus on task learning. I will discuss the knowledge representations we employ to represent hierarchical, goal-oriented tasks and how this knowledge can be learned from interactions using an explanation-based learning framework.



Biography: Shiwali Mohan is a Ph.D. candidate in the department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research interests include situated language, interactive learning, and cognitive systems.

Homepage: http://www.shiwali.me/

Host: Yang Gao

More Info: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/

Location: Information Science Institute (ISI) - 11th Flr Conf Rm # 1135, Marina Del Rey

Audiences: Everyone Is Invited

Contact: Peter Zamar

Event Link: http://nlg.isi.edu/nl-seminar/