News
We opened webpage of Yoshino lab, Tokyo Tech.
NAIST IRD lab. will be closed.
Existing students will continue to be supervised at NAIST/RIKEN until completion of the program.
If you wish to receive supervision from Prof. Yoshino, please apply to Tokyo Tech.
Toward building "Intelligent Dialogue Robots and Systems that Coexist with Humans"
Robots will act and interact autonomously, coexisting and cooperating with humans and enriching society.
Such a future vison has often been depicted in science fiction, but we have yet to reach such a world.
In recent years, however, with the advancement of natural language processing technology, what we call "dialogue intelligence" is appearing before our eyes.
So what else is needed for building robots we have dreamed of for years?
Laboratory Activities
Communication using language is essential for robots and other systems to operate in the same space as humans.
In the Intelligent Robot Dialogue Laboratory (IRD; Yoshino Laboratory), we conduct research with the goal of realizing dialogue intelligence for robots and systems that cooperate with humans.
In order to realize such dialogue functions that work in the real world, we use a variety of modalities, including speech, images, and robot actions, with a focus on their relationships with language understanding and generation.
Mechanisms such as dialog management, inference, reasoning, knowledge structures, and emotions are also important topics.
We also work on fundamental research on natural language processing, spoken language processing, multimodal information processing, machine learning, and other related areas.
In this way, we research and develop useful robots for our daily lives, and we also try to investigate what human intelligence is through such research.