Referring to the recently seen: reference and perceptual memory in situated dialog
It addresses a gap in research for practical applications like robotics and autonomous vehicles, focusing on a novel aspect beyond anaphoric or exophoric references.
The paper investigates the interaction between perceptual memory and linguistic references in situated dialog systems, highlighting the challenges this poses for computational models.
From theoretical linguistic and cognitive perspectives, situated dialog systems are interesting as they provide ideal test-beds for investigating the interaction between language and perception. At the same time there are a growing number of practical applications, for example robotic systems and driver-less cars, where spoken interfaces, capable of situated dialog, promise many advantages. To date, however much of the work on situated dialog has focused resolving anaphoric or exophoric references. This paper, by contrast, opens up the question of how perceptual memory and linguistic references interact, and the challenges that this poses to computational models of perceptually grounded dialog.