Peer Reviewed Publications |
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| Stefanie Tellex, Ross
Knepper, Adrian Li, Daniela Rus, and Nicholas Roy. Asking for Help
Using Inverse Semantics. Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems,
Berkeley, CA, 2014. (Best Paper.)
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| Walter, M.R., Hemachandra, S., Homberg, B., Tellex, S., Teller, S., A Framework for Learning Semantic Maps from Grounded Natural Language Descriptions. International Journal of Robotics Research (Special issue on RSS 2013), 2014.
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| A. Geramifard, T. Walsh, S. Tellex, G. Chowdhary, N. Roy, J. P. How, “A Tutorial on Linear Function Approximators for Dynamic Programming and Reinforcement Learning”, Foundations and Trends in Machine Learning (FTML), 2013
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Walter, M.R., Antone, M., Chuangsuwanich, E., Correa, A., Davis, R., Fletcher, L., Frazzoli, E., Friedman, Y., Glass, J., How, J.P., Jeon, J.H., Karaman, S., Luders, B., Roy, N., Tellex, S., Teller, S., A Situationally-Aware Voice-Commandable Robotic Forklift Working Alongside People in Unstructured Outdoor Environments. Journal of Field Robotics, 2014.
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| Matthew Walter, Sachi
Hemachandra, Bianca Homberg, Stefanie Tellex, and Seth Teller.
Learning Semantic Maps from Natural Language Descriptions. Proceedings
of Robotics: Science and Systems, Berlin, Germany, June
2013.
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| Stefanie Tellex,
Pratiksha Thaker, Joshua Joseph, Nicholas Roy. (2013). Learning
Perceptually Grounded Word Meanings From Unaligned Parallel Data.
Machine Learning Journal (Special Issue on Learning Semantics in
Machine Learning).
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| Robin
Deits*, Stefanie Tellex*, Pratiksha Thaker, Dimitar Simeonov, Thomas Kollar, Nicholas
Roy. (2013). Clarifying Commands with Information-Theoretic
Human-Robot Dialog. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction (Special
Issue: Best of HRI Conferences). Invited paper. (*equal contribution)
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| Stefanie Tellex*,
Pratiksha Thaker*, Robin Deits, Dimitar Simeonov, Thomas Kollar,
Nicholas Roy. (2012). Toward Information Theoretic Human-Robot
Dialog. Robotics: Science and Systems. (34% acceptance). (*equal contribution)
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| Mario Bollini, Stefanie
Tellex, Tyler Thompson, Nicholas Roy, Daniela
Rus. (2012). Interpreting and Executing Recipes with a Cooking Robot,
International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), Quebec City,
Canada.
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| Stefanie Tellex*, Thomas
Kollar*, Steven Dickerson, Matthew R. Walter, Ashis Gopal Banerjee,
Seth Teller, Nicholas Roy. (2011). Approaching the Symbol Grounding
Problem with Probabilistic Graphical Models. AI Magazine. 32(4):
64-76. (Invited paper.) (*equal contribution)
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| Stefanie Tellex*, Thomas
Kollar*, Steven Dickerson*, Matthew R. Walter, Ashis Gopal Banerjee,
Seth Teller, Nicholas Roy. (2011). Understanding Natural Language
Commands for Robotic Navigation and Mobile Manipulation. Proceedings
of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), San
Francisco, CA. (25% acceptance.) (*equal
contribution)
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Thomas Kollar*, Stefanie Tellex*, Deb Roy, Nicholas Roy.
(2010). Grounding Verbs of Motion in Natural Language Commands to
Robots, International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), New
Delhi, India. (*equal
contribution) |
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Thomas Kollar, Stefanie Tellex, Nicholas Roy. (2010). A Discriminative
Model for Understanding Natural Language Route Directions, AAAI Fall
Symposium Series.
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| Stefanie Tellex, Thomas
Kollar, George Shaw, Nicholas Roy and Deb Roy. (2010). Grounding
Spatial Language for Video Search. Proceedings of the Twelfth
International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI). (Best
Student Paper) (44% acceptance; 25% for oral)
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| Albert Huang*, Stefanie
Tellex*, Abraham Bachrach*, Thomas Kollar*, Deb Roy, and Nick
Roy. (2010). Natural Language Command of an Autonomous Micro-Air
Vehicle. Proceedings of the International Conference on
Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) . (46% acceptance.) (*equal contribution)
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| Thomas Kollar*, Stefanie
Tellex*, Deb Roy, and Nick Roy. (2010). Toward Understanding Natural
Language Directions. Proceedings of Human Robot Interaction
Conference. (21% acceptance.) (*equal
contribution)
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Tellex and Deb Roy. (2009). Grounding Spatial Prepositions for Video
Search. Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on
Multimodal Interfaces. (Nominated for Best Student Paper.)
(36% acceptance.) |
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Tellex and Deb Roy. (2009). Towards Surveillance Video Search by
Natural Language Query. Proceedings of the ACM International
Conference on Image and Video Retrieval. (33% acceptance.)
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Hsiao, Stefanie Tellex, Soroush Vosoughi, Rony Kubat, and Deb
Roy. (2008). Object Schemas for Grounding Language in a Responsive
Robot. Connection Science
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Vosoughi, Stefanie Tellex, Rony Kubat, and Deb Roy. (2008). Object
Schemas for Responsive Robotic Language Use. Proceedings of the 3rd
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. (36%
acceptance.) |
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Philip DeCamp, Rony Kubat, Michael Fleischman, Brandon Roy, Nikolaos
Mavridis, Stefanie Tellex, Alexia Salata, Jethran Guinness, Michael
Levit, Peter Gorniak. (2006). The Human Speechome
Project. Proceedings of the 28th Annual Cognitive Science
Conference.
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Stefanie Tellex and Deb Roy. (2006). Spatial Routines for a Simulated Speech-Controlled Vehicle. Proceedings of Human Robot Interaction Conference 2006 (HRI-2006) (33% acceptance.)
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Chris Schmandt, Walter Bender, Stefanie Tellex, Brad Lassey. An
audio-based personal memory aid. (2004). Proceedings of Ubicomp
2004: Ubiquitous Computing.
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Stefanie Tellex, Boris Katz, Jimmy Lin, Gregory Marton, and Aaron
Fernandes. (2003). Quantitative Evaluation of Passage Retrieval Algorithms for
Question Answering. Proceedings of the 26th Annual International ACM
SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval
(SIGIR-2003), Toronto, Canada. (Best Student Paper)
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Other Publications |
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| Stefanie Tellex,
Pratiksha Thaker, Joshua Joseph, Matthew R. Walter, Nicholas
Roy. (2012) Toward Learning Perceptually Grounded Word Meanings From
Unaligned Parallel Data. Proceedings of the NAACL HLT Workshop on
Semantic Interpretation in an Actionable Context, pp. 7-14, Montréal,
Canada, June 2012. |
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| Ross A. Knepper, Stefanie
Tellex, Adrian Li, Nicholas Roy, Daniela Rus. (2013). Single Assembly Robot in
Search of Human Partner: Versatile Grounded Language Generation. HRI
workshop and poster
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| Thomas Howard, Stefanie
Tellex, Nicholas Roy. (2013). A Natural Language Planner Interface for Mobile
Manipulators. ICML 2013 Workshop on Robot Learning
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| Stefanie Tellex. (2010). Natural Language and Spatial Reasoning. Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Stefanie Tellex. (2009) Natural Language and Spatial Reasoning. Ph.D. thesis proposal
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Stefanie Tellex and Deb Roy. (2007). Grounding Language in Spatial Routines. AAAI 2007 Spring Symposia on Control Mechanisms for Spatial Knowledge Processing in Cognitive/Intelligent Systems, Stanford University, Palo Alto CA.
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Stefanie Tellex. (2006). Grounding Language in Spatial Routines. Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Stefanie Tellex. Pauchok: A Modular Framework for Question
Answering. (2003). Master's Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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Presentations
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Open Office |
Toward Information Theoretic Human-Robot Dialog (RSS E-poster) |
Open Office |
Toward Information Theoretic Human-Robot Dialog (RSS Five Minute Talk) |
Open Office |
Generalized Grounding Graphs |
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Thesis defense slides |
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Thesis proposal critique slides |
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HRI 2006 slides |
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SIGIR 2003 slides |