Teaching robots linguistic hedges and discourse markers
Tuesday, February 11, 2014 - 09:02
in Mathematics & Economics
(Phys.org) —Before long, robots will be giving us helpful advice, but we don't want them to be snippy about it. Research at Cornell and Carnegie Mellon universities suggests that if they sound a little less sure of themselves and throw in a few of the meaningless words humans are fond of, listeners will have a more positive response.