Spatial reference and natural-language machine control

✍ Scribed by Norman K. Sondheimer

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1976
• Weight: 556 KB
• Volume: 8
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0020-7373
• DOI: 10.1016/s0020-7373(76)80004-1

✦ Synopsis

Current research on natural-language speech-understanding provides encouragement for the development of systems for the vocal control of mechanical devices. However, the designer of such systems faces a variety of difficulties in allowing for references to the position, orientation, and direction of motion of objects and actions in space. This paper analyzes sources of these difficulties and conceivable solutions to them.