{"671124":{"#nid":"671124","#data":{"type":"event","title":"IRIM Spring 2024 Seminar Featuring | Stefanie Tellex (tentative); Brown University","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EAbstract: \u003C\/strong\u003ETBA\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\n\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EBio: \u003C\/strong\u003E I am an assistant professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/cs.brown.edu\u0022\u003EComputer Science Department\u003C\/a\u003E at \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.brown.edu\u0022\u003EBrown University\u003C\/a\u003E. The aim of my research program is to construct robots that seamlessly use natural language to communicate with humans. In twenty years, every home will have a personal robot which can perform tasks such as \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=5tJJFD8_XX8\u0022\u003Eclearing the dinner table\u003C\/a\u003E, \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=caVo6EJFV8s\u0022\u003Edoing laundry\u003C\/a\u003E, and \u003Ca href=\u0022http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CjJH1XSnVVY\u0022\u003Epreparing dinner\u003C\/a\u003E. As these machines become more powerful and more autonomous, it is critical to develop methods for enabling people to tell them what to do. Robots that can communicate with people using language can \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cs.brown.edu\/people\/stellex\/publications\/tellex11.pdf\u0022\u003Erespond appropriately\u003C\/a\u003E to commands given by humans, \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cs.brown.edu\/people\/stellex\/publications\/deits13.pdf\u0022\u003Eask questions\u003C\/a\u003E when they are confused, and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/cs.brown.edu\/people\/stellex\/publications\/knepper13.pdf\u0022\u003Erequest help\u003C\/a\u003E when they get stuck. We apply probabilistic methods, corpus-based training, and decision theory to develop interactive robotic systems that can understand and generate natural language. I completed my Ph.D. at the MIT Media Lab in 2010, where I developed models for the meanings of spatial prepositions and motion verbs. My postdoctoral work at MIT CSAIL focused on creating robots that understand natural language. I have published at SIGIR, HRI, RSS, AAAI, IROS, and ICMI, winning Best Student Paper at SIGIR and ICMI. I was named one of IEEE Spectrum\u2019s AI\u2019s 10 to Watch and won the Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Award at Brown University.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAll Seminars Held on Wednesdays 12:15 - 1:15pm in Marcus Nanotechnology\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Featuring | Stefanie Tellex (tentative); Brown University"}],"uid":"27863","created_gmt":"2023-11-16 18:23:49","changed_gmt":"2024-01-10 18:30:04","author":"Christa Ernst","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2024-04-10T12:15:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2024-04-10T13:15:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2024-04-10T13:15:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2024-04-10 16:15:00","gmt_time_end":"2024-04-10 17:15:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2024-04-10 17:15:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"location":"Marcus Nanotechnology Building 1118","extras":["free_food"],"related_links":[{"url":"https:\/\/research.gatech.edu\/robotics\/irim-seminar-series","title":"Series Schedule"}],"groups":[{"id":"142761","name":"IRIM"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"188087","name":"go-irim"},{"id":"654","name":"College of Computing"},{"id":"594","name":"college of engineering"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1795","name":"Seminar\/Lecture\/Colloquium"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"177814","name":"Postdoc"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"174045","name":"Graduate students"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003Echrista.ernst@research.gatech.edu\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}