Robots designed to interact with humans in realistic environments must be able to handle uncertainty with respect to the identities and properties of the people, places, and things found in their environments. When humans refer to these entities using under-specified language, robots must often generate clarification requests to determine which entities were meant.
@inproceedings{williams2017rss,
title={Resolution of Referential Ambiguity in Human-Robot Dialogue Using Dempster-Shafer Theoretic Pragmatics},
author={Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz},
year={2017},
booktitle={Proceedings of Robotics: Science and Systems},
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/williams2017rss.pdf}
}