investigator from Carnegie Mellon and the University of Arizona are create a “ roboceptionist ” that speaks Arabic and English and is culturally attuned to whomever she ’s conversing with . She ’s a veritable Maxima Headroom .
Professors Reid Simmons of Carnegie Mellon and Sandiway Fong of UA are building Hala for Carnegie Mellon ’s campus in Qatar . CMU will lick on the robotics , whereas UA will spring up Hala ’s philology . Hala is design to be both bilingual and bicultural — she ’s programmed to understand culturally Sir Thomas More and idioms . Hala also possesses her own unparalleled personality , which I can only bear is a cross between Cortana from Halo andAndrossfrom Star Fox .
Yup , our technology is now get going to resemble that of the Fantastic Four ’s Baxter Building . From theUniversity of Arizona :
Fong said a bicultural automaton is not one that merely switches between English and Arabic , Hala ’s current formatting , but also has both modes simultaneously combat-ready in edict to blob and treat with likely cultural ambiguities and misunderstandings .
“ You may speak Arabic , but you may choose to discourse with the robot in English , ” said Fong . “ You may be discourse with the aesthesia and the cultural setting and the idioms from the Arabic man . This robot needs to understand both . ”
The idiom “ week after week , ” for model , “ I ’m looking for the group that meets week after week ” means “ every workweek ” in English . But in some Arabic idiom it can mean “ every other hebdomad . ” Only a golem that is simultaneously facile with both lexicons can compute that this idiom is subject to cultural variation and can enquire the user for clarification .
refinement affects not only the sentence structure and semantics of an interaction , but also the structure of the interaction , from the way salutation and closings are do , to the frame of the language used to politeness strategy .
“ In American culture , we quickly recognise someone and then we tend to get down to business , ” said Fong . “ In Arab cultures , it is ill-mannered to really get down to business sector right away . There is much more turn - taking in greeting . Hala will screw this . ”
Hala , who has a build - in backstory and personality , will correct response based on cue from the visitor , essentially build a model of the exploiter throughout the fundamental interaction : Is this person high - status ? Is this someone American ? Is this person in a hurry ?
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