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Bennett Stankovits

3 accepted papers

2023

Zero-Shot Linear Combinations of Grounded Social Interactions with Linear Social MDPs

AAAI 2023technical

Humans and animals engage in rich social interactions. It is often theorized that a relatively small number of basic social interactions give rise to the full range of behavior observed. But no computational theory explaining how social interactions combine together has been proposed before. We do s…

Cited by 1SourcePDFScholar
2022

Incorporating Rich Social Interactions Into MDPs

ICRA 2022poster

Much of what we do as humans is engage socially with other agents, a skill that robots must also eventually possess. We demonstrate that a rich theory of social interactions originating from microsociology can be formalized by extending a nested MDP where agents reason about arbitrary functions of e…

Cited by 10SourceScholar
2022

The Aligned Multimodal Movie Treebank: An audio, video, dependency-parse treebank

EMNLP 2022main

Treebanks have traditionally included only text and were derived from written sources such as newspapers or the web. We introduce the Aligned Multimodal Movie Treebank (AMMT), an English language treebank derived from dialog in Hollywood movies which includes transcriptions of the audio-visual strea…