Deb Roy
Associate Professor of Media Arts and Sciences
AT&T Career Development Professor
Director, Cognitive Machines Group
Chair, Academic Program in Media Arts & Sciences
Director, Center for Future Banking
MIT Media Laboratory

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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. pdf

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

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