Translating Navigation Instructions in Natural Language to a High-Level Plan for Behavioral Robot Navigation

Xiaoxue Zang, Ashwini Pokle, Marynel Vázquez, Kevin Chen, Juan Carlos Niebles, Alvaro Soto, Silvio Savarese


Abstract
We propose an end-to-end deep learning model for translating free-form natural language instructions to a high-level plan for behavioral robot navigation. We use attention models to connect information from both the user instructions and a topological representation of the environment. We evaluate our model’s performance on a new dataset containing 10,050 pairs of navigation instructions. Our model significantly outperforms baseline approaches. Furthermore, our results suggest that it is possible to leverage the environment map as a relevant knowledge base to facilitate the translation of free-form navigational instruction.
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D18-1286
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Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing
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October-November
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2018
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Brussels, Belgium
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EMNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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2657–2666
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10.18653/v1/D18-1286
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Xiaoxue Zang, Ashwini Pokle, Marynel Vázquez, Kevin Chen, Juan Carlos Niebles, Alvaro Soto, and Silvio Savarese. 2018. Translating Navigation Instructions in Natural Language to a High-Level Plan for Behavioral Robot Navigation. In Proceedings of the 2018 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, pages 2657–2666, Brussels, Belgium. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Translating Navigation Instructions in Natural Language to a High-Level Plan for Behavioral Robot Navigation (Zang et al., EMNLP 2018)
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