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Deb Roy
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Cognitive Machines
Our research is focused on
how children learn language, and the design of machines that learn to
communicate in human-like ways. To enable this work, we develop new
data-driven methods for analyzing and modeling human linguistic and
social behavior.
Selected Publications
Jeff Orkin and Deb Roy. (2008). The
Restaurant Game: Learning Social Behavior and Language from Thousands of Players
Online. Journal of Game Development.
pdf
Deb Roy. (2008). A Mechanistic Model of
Three Facets of Meaning. Chapter to appear in Symbols, Embodiment, and
Meaning, de Vega, Glenberg, and
Graesser, eds. pdf
Rony Kubat, Philip DeCamp, Brandon Roy,
and Deb Roy. (2007). TotalRecall: Visualization and Semi-Automatic Annotation
of Very Large Audio-Visual Corpora. Ninth International Conference on
Multimodal Interfaces. pdf
Michael Fleischman and Deb Roy. (2007).
Situated Models of Meaning for Sports Video Retrieval. Human Language
Technology Conference, Rochester, NY.
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Peter Gorniak and Deb Roy. (2007).
Situated Language Understanding as Filtering Perceived Affordances. Cognitive
Science, 31(2), 197-231. pdf
Deb Roy, et al. (2006). The Human
Speechome Project. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Cognitive Science
Conference. pdf
Deb Roy. (2005). Semiotic Schemas: A
Framework for Grounding Language in Action and Perception. Artificial
Intelligence, 167(1-2):170-205. pdf