Translating Natural Language Instructions for Behavioral Robot Navigation with a Multi-Head Attention Mechanism

Patricio Cerda-Mardini, Vladimir Araujo, Álvaro Soto


Abstract
We propose a multi-head attention mechanism as a blending layer in a neural network model that translates natural language to a high level behavioral language for indoor robot navigation. We follow the framework established by (Zang et al., 2018a) that proposes the use of a navigation graph as a knowledge base for the task. Our results show significant performance gains when translating instructions on previously unseen environments, therefore, improving the generalization capabilities of the model.
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2020.winlp-1.24
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Proceedings of the The Fourth Widening Natural Language Processing Workshop
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July
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2020
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Seattle, USA
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ACL | WS | WiNLP
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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96–98
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