Advances in Wikipedia-based Interaction with Robots

The paper describes advances in Wikipedia-based human-robot interaction. After reviewing the current capabilities of talking robots that use Wikipedia as an information source, the paper presents methods that support new capabilities. These include language-switching and multimodal behaviour-switching when using Wikipedias in many languages, robot initiatives to suggest new topics from Wikipedia based on semantic similarity to the current topic, and the capability of the robot to listen to the user talking and to recognize entities mentioned by the user that have Wikipedia links.

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