Givenness Hierarchy Informed Optimal Document Planning for Situated Human-Robot Interaction

Kevin Spevak,Zhao Han,Tom Williams,Neil T. Dantam,Kevin Spevak,Zhao Han,Tom Williams,Neil T. Dantam

Robots that use natural language in collaborative tasks must refer to objects in their environment. Recent work has shown the utility of the linguistic theory of the Givenness Hierarchy (GH) in generating appropriate referring forms. But before referring expression generation, collaborative robots must determine the content and structure of a sequence of utterances, a task known as document planni...