Ambiguities in Spatial Language Understanding in Situated Human Robot Dialogue
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In human robot dialogue, identifying intended referents from human partners’ spatial language is challenging. This is partly due to automated inference of potentially ambiguous underlying reference system (i.e., frame of reference). To improve spatial language understanding, we conducted an empirical study to investigate the prevalence of ambiguities of frame of reference. Our findings indicate that ambiguities do arise frequently during human robot dialogues. Although situational factors from the spatial arrangement are less indicative for the underlying reference system, linguistic cues and individual preferences may allow reliable disambiguation.
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Ambiguities in Spatial Language Understanding in Situated Human Robot
In human robot dialogue, identifying intended referents from human partners’ spatial language is challenging. This is partly due to automated inference of potentially ambiguous underlying reference system (i.e., frame of reference). To improve spatial language understanding, we conducted an empirical study to investigate the prevalence of ambiguities of frame of reference. Our findings indicate...
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