SEAFACT: Semantic Analysis for Animation of Cooking Tasks

SEAFACT is a natural language interface to a computer-generated animation system. SEAFACT operates in the domain of cooking tasks. The domain is limited to a mini-world consisting of a small set of verbs which were chosen because they involve rather complex arm movements which will be interesting to animate. A linguistic analysis of the language found in recipes, included here, was used to define the domain. SEAFACT allows the user to specify tasks in this domain, using a small subset of English. The system then analyzes the English input and produces a representation of the task which can drive lower level motion synthesis procedures. The output of the system contains sufficient non-geometric information needed to schedule task start and end times, describe concurrent actions, and provide reach, grasp, and motion goals. Comments University of Pennsylvania Department of Computer and Information Science Technical Report No. MSCIS-88-04. This technical report is available at ScholarlyCommons: http://repository.upenn.edu/cis_reports/734 SEAFACT: SEMANTIC ANALYSIS FOR ANIMATION OF COOKING TASKS Robin F. Karlin MS-CIS-88-04 GRAPHICS LAB 19 Department of Computer and Information Science School of Engineering and Applied Science University of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, PA 191 04

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