Presenting a system of human-machine interaction for performing map tasks.

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014)

Abstract

A system for human machine interaction is presented, that offers second language learners of Italian the possibility of assessing their competence by performing a map task, namely by guiding the a virtual follower through a map with written instructions in natural language. The underlying natural language processing algorithm is described, and the map authoring infrastructure is presented.