The ability to refer to entities such as objects, locations, and people is an important capability for robots designed to interact with humans. For example, a referring expression (RE) such as "Do you mean the box on the left?" might be used by a robot seeking to disambiguate between objects. In this paper, we present and evaluate algorithms for Referring Expression Generation (REG) in small-scale situated contexts. We first present data regarding how humans generate small-scale spatial referring expressions (REs).
@inproceedings{kunzeetal17,
title={Spatial Referring Expression Generation for HRI: Algorithms and Evaluation Framework},
author={Lars Kunze and Tom Williams and Nick Hawes and Matthias Scheutz},
year={2017},
booktitle={AAAI Fall Symposium on AI-HRI},
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/kunzeetal17.pdf}
}