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- | =====Daniel Nyga, M.Sc. (TUM)====== | + | =====Dr.rer.nat. Daniel Nyga====== |
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- | |::: ||Research Staff\\ \\ || | + | |::: ||Postdoctoral Researcher\\ \\ || |
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- | |:::|Tel: |--49 -421 218 64008| | + | |:::|Tel: |--49 -421 218 64010| |
|:::|Fax: |--49 -421 218 64047| | |:::|Fax: |--49 -421 218 64047| | ||
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====About==== | ====About==== | ||
- | Before I joined the Institute for Artificial Intelligence, | ||
- | I'm working on the import | + | Daniel Nyga is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Artificial Intelligence (IAI), University |
- | My work aims at building up action-specific | + | ====Dissertation==== |
+ | [[http:// | ||
+ | has been one of the ultimate long-standing goals in both Artificial | ||
+ | Intelligence and Robotics research. In near-future applications, | ||
+ | robotic assistants and companions | ||
+ | commands such as "set the table for dinner", | ||
+ | breakfast", | ||
+ | instructions are only vaguely formulated, complex sequences of | ||
+ | sophisticated and accurate manipulation activities need to be carried | ||
+ | out in order to accomplish the respective tasks. The acquisition of | ||
+ | knowledge about how to perform these activities from huge collections | ||
+ | of natural-language instructions from the Internet has garnered a lot | ||
+ | of attention within the last decade. However, natural language is | ||
+ | typically massively unspecific, incomplete, ambiguous and vague and | ||
+ | thus requires powerful means for interpretation. | ||
+ | This work presents PRAC -- Probabilistic Action Cores -- an | ||
+ | interpreter for natural-language instructions which is able to resolve | ||
+ | vagueness and ambiguity in natural language and infer missing | ||
+ | information pieces that are required to render an instruction | ||
+ | executable by a robot. To this end, PRAC formulates the problem of | ||
+ | instruction interpretation as a reasoning problem in first-order | ||
+ | probabilistic | ||
+ | logic networks as a carrier formalism for encoding uncertain knowledge. | ||
+ | A novel framework for reasoning about unmodeled symbolic concepts is | ||
+ | introduced, which incorporates ontological knowledge | ||
+ | and exploits semantically similar relational structures in a domain of | ||
+ | discourse. The resulting reasoning framework thus enables more compact | ||
+ | representations of knowledge | ||
+ | performance when being learnt from very sparse data. Furthermore, a | ||
+ | novel approach for completing directives is presented, which applies | ||
+ | semantic analogical reasoning to transfer knowledge collected from | ||
+ | thousands of natural-language | ||
+ | addition, a cohesive processing pipeline is described that transforms | ||
+ | vague and incomplete task formulations into sequences of formally | ||
+ | specified robot plans. The system is connected to a plan executive that | ||
+ | is able to execute the computed plans in a simulator. Experiments | ||
+ | conducted in a publicly accessible, browser-based web interface | ||
+ | showcase that PRAC is capable | ||
+ | natural-language instructions to their execution by a robot. | ||
- | {{research: | + | ====Master' |
- | Knowledge about actions and objects is represented as //Probabilistic Robot Action Cores (PRAC)//, which can be thought of generic event patterns that enable | + | [[https://ai.uni-bremen.de/_media/team/ |
- | I am also involved in the European research projects [[http:// | + | ====Projects==== |
+ | Daniel Nyga's research interests revolve around topics on Artificial Intelligence | ||
- | If you are interested | + | He was involved |
+ | He is the lead developer in the projects [[http:// | ||
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+ | His GitHub profile can be found [[http:// | ||
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* Data Mining/ | * Data Mining/ | ||
* Automated Learning/ | * Automated Learning/ | ||
- | * Natural-Language Understanding | + | * Natural-language understanding |
====Teaching==== | ====Teaching==== | ||
- | * Foundations of Artificial Intelligence ([[https:// | + | |
- | * AI: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation ([[https:// | + | * Foundations of Artificial Intelligence ([[https:// |
+ | * AI: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation ([[https:// | ||
+ | * Master Seminar: Data Mining and Data Analytics ([[http:// | ||
+ | * AI: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation ([[https:// | ||
+ | * AI: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation ([[https:// | ||
+ | | ||
+ | * AI: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation ([[https:// | ||
* Foundations of Artificial Intelligence ([[https:// | * Foundations of Artificial Intelligence ([[https:// | ||
* AI: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation ([[https:// | * AI: Knowledge Acquisition and Representation ([[https:// | ||
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* Techniques in Artificial Intelligence (Tutorial, | * Techniques in Artificial Intelligence (Tutorial, | ||
* Discrete Probability Theory (Tutorial, at TUM) ([[http:// | * Discrete Probability Theory (Tutorial, at TUM) ([[http:// | ||
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====Supervised Theses==== | ====Supervised Theses==== | ||
+ | * Lifelong Learning of First-order Probabilistic Models for Everyday Robot Manipulation (Master' | ||
+ | * Scaling Probabilistic Completion of Robot Instructions through Semantic Information Retrieval (Master' | ||
* To see what no robot has seen before - Recognizing objects based on natural-language descriptions (Master' | * To see what no robot has seen before - Recognizing objects based on natural-language descriptions (Master' | ||
* Web-enabled Learning of Models for Word Sense Disambiguation (Bachelor Thesis, Stephan Epping) | * Web-enabled Learning of Models for Word Sense Disambiguation (Bachelor Thesis, Stephan Epping) | ||
* Grounding Words to Objects: A Joint Model for Co-reference and Entity Resolution Using Markov Logic Networks for Robot Instruction Processing (Diploma Thesis, Florian Meyer) | * Grounding Words to Objects: A Joint Model for Co-reference and Entity Resolution Using Markov Logic Networks for Robot Instruction Processing (Diploma Thesis, Florian Meyer) | ||
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====== Publications ====== | ====== Publications ====== | ||
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