A robot participating in natural dialogue with a human interlocutor may need to discuss, reason about, or initiate actions concerning dialogue-referenced entities. To do so, the robot must first identify or create new representations for those entities, a capability known as reference resolution. We previously presented algorithms for resolving references occurring in definite noun phrases.
@inproceedings{williamsetal16hri,
title={Situated Open World Reference Resolution for Human-Robot Dialogue},
author={Tom Williams and Saurav Acharya and Stephanie Schreitter and Matthias Scheutz},
year={2016},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
url={https://hrilab.tufts.edu/publications/williamsetal16hri.pdf}
}