An Emotional Robotic Partner for Entertainment Purposes
Anzalone S.M., Balistreri, G., Sorbello R., Chella, A
International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research, Vol. 1, No. 3, 2010.
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Abstract:
In this paper an emotional humanoid robot based on Latent Semantic Analysis is presented. The robot is capable of interacting and entertain human users through the exhibition of spontaneous and non-repetitive emotional behaviours. The Latent Semantic Analysis (LSA) paradigm, used to encode the semantics of words through a statistical analysis of a large corpus of text, is employed to build an emotional conceptual space that simulates the emotional associative capabilities of human beings, through â€œLatent Semantic Behavioursâ€. The LSA paradigm integrates traditional knowledge representation and intuitive capabilities provided by geometric and sub-symbolic information modelling. The effectiveness of the proposed approach has been validated by implementing the system with the humanoid robot from Aldebaran, Nao.12.