The ADAMACH Project

GIUSEPPE RICCARDI, DISI - University of Trento

Talk

Abstract:

The ADAMACH project is a four-year project funded under the Marie Curie Excellence Grant action program of the European Commission. The goal of the project was to bring together an interdisciplinary team of Marie Curie Fellows and investigate the fundamental research questions of spoken human-machine interactions. Can machines understand human language and be trained to acquire continuously the necessary skills to interact with their social counterpart ("users") and the physical/virtual world they interact with? Can machines become their companions to help in their daily lives?

The ADAMACH project has addressed some of these long-standing questions in the research community and made contributions in the speech, language and human-interaction modelling areas. We will report on the research highlights of the ADAMACH project as well as the impact on related projects in the lab.