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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)

pdf Stefanie 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.)

pdf Stefanie 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.)

pdf Kai-yuh Hsiao, Stefanie Tellex, Soroush Vosoughi, Rony Kubat, and Deb Roy. (2008). Object Schemas for Grounding Language in a Responsive Robot. Connection Science

pdf Kai-yuh Hsiao, Soroush 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.)

pdf Deb Roy, Rupal Patel, 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.

pdf 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.)
PDF Sunil Vemuri, Chris Schmandt, Walter Bender, Stefanie Tellex, Brad Lassey. An audio-based personal memory aid. (2004). Proceedings of Ubicomp 2004: Ubiquitous Computing.

pdf 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)

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

pdf 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.
pdf Stefanie Tellex. (2006). Grounding Language in Spatial Routines. Master's thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
PDF Stefanie Tellex. Pauchok: A Modular Framework for Question Answering. (2003). Master's Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Presentations

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
pdf Thesis defense slides
pdf Thesis proposal critique slides
pdf HRI 2006 slides
pdf SIGIR 2003 slides