A major challenge for robots interacting with humans in realistic environments is handling robots' uncertainty with respect to the identities and properties of the people, places, and things found in their environments: a problem compounded when humans refer to these entities using underspecified language.
@inproceedings{williams2016aihri,
title={Resolution of Referential Ambiguity Using Dempster-Shafer Theoretic Pragmatics},
author={Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz},
year={2016},
booktitle={AAAI Fall Symposium on AI and HRI},
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/williams2016aihri.pdf}
}