工学部案内の国際化対応プロジェクト

We have developed an intelligent campus navigation robot, which can communicate with a human by speech. It also recognizes user’s emotion from a voice and a facial expression, and the agent represents it’s own emotion using voice and behavior.
Inthispaper, we improve the robot to be able to deal with multi languages. It is needed to guide campus information with English, Chinese, and other languages, but it is hard to develop many communication systems each of which corresponds to each language. Therefore, we have introduced a machine translation system in the robot. It realized that the core dialog system can be used for many languages.
We also have introduced an ontology as a knowledge representation. It represented a knowledge smaller than conventional representations, and it realized that the robot can accept more various representation as input.