Natural language dialogue provides the opportunity for truly natural human-robot interaction. A robot participating in natural language dialogue must identify or create new representations for referenced entities if it is to discuss, reason about, or perform actions involving that entity, a capability known as reference resolution. In previous work we presented algorithms for resolving references occurring in definite noun phrases
@inproceedings{williamsetal15aaaifs,
title={Towards Situated Open World Reference Resolution},
author={Tom Williams and Stephanie Schreitter and Saurav Acharya and Matthias Scheutz},
year={2015},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2015 AAAI Fall Symposium on AI and HRI},
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/williamsetal15aaaifs.pdf}
}