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Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning (MARL) methods have shown promise in enabling agents to learn a shared communication protocol from scratch and accomplish challenging team tasks. However, the learned language is usually not interpretable…

Using natural language to give instructions to robots is challenging, since natural language understanding is still largely an open problem. In this paper we address this problem by restricting our attention to commands modeled as one…

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We are witnessing a bloom of AI-powered software driven by Large Language Models (LLMs). Although the applications of these LLMs are impressive and seemingly countless, their unreliability hinders adoption. In fact, the tendency of LLMs to…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Vincenzo Scotti , Jan Keim , Tobias Hey , Andreas Metzger , Anne Koziolek , Raffaela Mirandola

In the last ongoing years, there has been a significant ascending on the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for performing multiple tasks including English Language Teaching (ELT). An effective strategy to favor the learning process…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-09-21 Carlos Morales-Torres , Mario Campos-Soberanis , Diego Campos-Sobrino

This technical paper introduces a chatting robot system that utilizes recent advancements in large-scale language models (LLMs) such as GPT-3 and ChatGPT. The system is integrated with a co-speech gesture generation system, which selects…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Naoki Wake , Atsushi Kanehira , Kazuhiro Sasabuchi , Jun Takamatsu , Katsushi Ikeuchi

Deaf people are using sign language for communication, and it is a combination of gestures, movements, postures, and facial expressions that correspond to alphabets and words in spoken languages. The proposed Arabic sign language…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-01-10 Muhammad Al-Barham , Ahmad Jamal , Musa Al-Yaman

Multilingual Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) aims to recognize and transcribe speech from multiple languages within a single system. Whisper, one of the most advanced ASR models, excels in this domain by handling 99 languages…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-24 Shao-Syuan Huang , Kuan-Po Huang , Andy T. Liu , Hung-yi Lee

Sign language is a fundamental means of communication for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (DHH) community, enabling nuanced expression through gestures, facial expressions, and body movements. Despite its critical role in facilitating…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-04-14 Alexander Brettmann , Jakob Grävinghoff , Marlene Rüschoff , Marie Westhues

Social robots are becoming more and more perceptible in public service settings. For engaging people in a natural environment a smooth social interaction as well as acceptance by the users are important issues for future successful…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Thomas Sievers , Nele Russwinkel

Discussion and debate among Large Language Models (LLMs) have gained considerable attention due to their potential to enhance the reasoning ability of LLMs. Although natural language is an obvious choice for communication due to LLM's…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-02-27 Chau Pham , Boyi Liu , Yingxiang Yang , Zhengyu Chen , Tianyi Liu , Jianbo Yuan , Bryan A. Plummer , Zhaoran Wang , Hongxia Yang

A major focus of recent research in spoken language understanding (SLU) has been on the end-to-end approach where a single model can predict intents directly from speech inputs without intermediate transcripts. However, this approach…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-06-15 Sujeong Cha , Wangrui Hou , Hyun Jung , My Phung , Michael Picheny , Hong-Kwang Kuo , Samuel Thomas , Edmilson Morais

Large Language Models (LLMs) have showcased exceptional performance across diverse NLP tasks, and their integration with speech encoder is rapidly emerging as a dominant trend in the Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) field. Previous works…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Zheshu Song , Ziyang Ma , Yifan Yang , Jianheng Zhuo , Xie Chen

We introduce SensorLLM, a two-stage framework that enables Large Language Models (LLMs) to perform human activity recognition (HAR) from sensor time-series data. Despite their strong reasoning and generalization capabilities, LLMs remain…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-08-26 Zechen Li , Shohreh Deldari , Linyao Chen , Hao Xue , Flora D. Salim

This work studies the capabilities of a large language model (LLM) to understand paralinguistic aspects of speech without fine-tuning its weights. We utilize an end-to-end system with a speech encoder, which is trained to produce token…

Audio and Speech Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-09-03 Wonjune Kang , Junteng Jia , Chunyang Wu , Wei Zhou , Egor Lakomkin , Yashesh Gaur , Leda Sari , Suyoun Kim , Ke Li , Jay Mahadeokar , Ozlem Kalinli

Sign Language (SL), as the mother tongue of the deaf community, is a special visual language that most hearing people cannot understand. In recent years, neural Sign Language Translation (SLT), as a possible way for bridging communication…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-02 Jiangbin Zheng , Siyuan Li , Cheng Tan , Chong Wu , Yidong Chen , Stan Z. Li

We introduce Plantbot, a hybrid lifeform that connects a living plant with a mobile robot through a network of large language model (LLM) modules. Each module - responsible for sensing, vision, dialogue, or action - operates asynchronously…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-09 Atsushi Masumori , Norihiro Maruyama , Itsuki Doi , johnsmith , Hiroki Sato , Takashi Ikegami

The evolution of Large Language Models (LLMs) has showcased remarkable capacities for logical reasoning and natural language comprehension. These capabilities can be leveraged in solutions that semantically and textually model complex…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-17 Syed Mekael Wasti , Ken Q. Pu , Ali Neshati

This research paper describes a realtime system for identifying American Sign Language (ASL) movements that employs modern computer vision and machine learning approaches. The suggested method makes use of the Mediapipe library for feature…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Rupesh Kumar , Ashutosh Bajpai , Ayush Sinha

The number of robots deployed in our daily surroundings is ever-increasing. Even in the industrial set-up, the use of coworker robots is increasing rapidly. These cohabitant robots perform various tasks as instructed by co-located human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Pradip Pramanick , Chayan Sarkar , Indrajit Bhattacharya

Sign languages play a crucial role in the communication of deaf communities, but they are often marginalized, limiting access to essential services such as healthcare and education. This study proposes an automatic sign language recognition…

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