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"abstract": "Utterances in situated activity are about the world. Theories and systems normally capture this by assuming references must be resolved to real-world entities in utterance understanding. We describe a number of puzzles and problems for this approach, and propose an alternative semantic representation using discourse relations that link utterances to the nonlinguistic context to capture the contextdependent interpretation of situated utterances. Our approach promises better empirical coverage and more straightforward system building. Substantiating these advantages is work in progress. * This paper is based on work supported by NSF IIS-1017811. We acknowledge the helpful anonymous reviews.",
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"text": "People exhibit sophisticated strategies for using language to coordinate their ongoing practical activities (Clark and Krych, 2004) . Applications such as human-robot interaction must also also support these strategies (Kruijff et al., 2012) . A key question is how to track speakers' reference to the environment. Julia Child's (1), from the \"omelette\" episode of The French Chef, illustrates the issues:",
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"text": "The accompanying video is a close-up of a stovetop from above, with the omelette Child is cooking front and center. To understand what Child is doing, we need to track the obvious connection between her utterance and that omelette in that pan.",
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"text": "In this paper, we explore a novel and surprising proposal about how do this: discourse relations. Discourse relations are kinds of speech acts, which can connect an utterance to ongoing conversation, establish the coherence of what is said, and allow inference to implicatures and other aspects of the speaker's mental state Lascarides, 2003, 2013) . Child's (1) we suggest, gets its coherence, in part, as a report of what's visible in that situation. Child's reference to the omelette and the pan is a consequence of this interpretation, and so need not and should not be separately represented.",
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"text": "Prior work focuses on symbols that refer directly to the world and placeholders that abstract reference; see Section 2. We introduce our alternative and contrast it with these approaches in Section 3. On the theoretical side, we argue in Section 4, our approach captures meaning more precisely and provides a better account of what's needed to understand and disambiguate situated utterances. On the practical side, we argue in Section 5, our approach provides a more tractable interface between linguistic processing, situated perception, and deliberation.",
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"text": "Our work arises out of an interest in combining grounded representations of meaning with coherence approaches to discourse. To appreciate the issues, consider a classic case (Bolt, 1980) . A user utters (2), while pointing first at an object in the environment and then at the place it should go.",
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"text": "(2) Put that there. Kaplan (1989) urges us to treat demonstratives in cases such as (2) as directly referential. In using them, the speaker gives information about those very things. Computationally, this means that the objects of demonstrations should be represented using symbols that are locked onto their referents system-wide. In multimodal interfaces, like Bolt's (1980) , the targets are graphical objects and other locations on a computer display, for which appropriate internal representations are readily available. For robotics, the natural strategy is to represent referents using perceptually-grounded symbols anchored in the real world, as do Yu and Ballard (2004) for example.",
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"text": "When it's problematic to use grounded symbols, we can use discourse referents alongside them. Formally, a discourse referent is just a free variable, but it can be associated with anchoring constraints that describe how it is supposed to be linked up with the world (Zeevat, 1999) . In practice, anchoring involves representing interpretation in two separate tiers (Luperfoy, 1992) . Meaning is represented via variables, the world is represented via suitably grounded symbols, and an evolving assignment of values to variables embodies the system's understanding of the real-world reference of expressions in discourse.",
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"text": "Reconciling grounded reference and discourse anaphora is the job of discourse semantics. We can see this in the planning dialogue of (4), for example. We need to represent A's utterance as a proposal-a specific kind of problem-solving move that advocates a particular course of action and commits the speaker to following through on it if others concur. The move focuses attention on the entities involved in carrying it out: here, the ship, Florida and the region to its south. Meanwhile, B's response in (4b) is a rejection-a move that offers a negative assessment of the current proposal and commits the speaker against adopting it. Note that B's references with that and there succeed even if B produces the utterance without any accompanying gesture or demonstration, because the referent has been activated by an earlier mention in a related utterance (Gundel et al., 1993) . The simplest approach to discourse organization is to represent the state of the discourse with an information state (Poesio and Traum, 1997) and associate each move with an appropriate update. For example, we can model utterances such as (2) and (3) as making moves that contribute step-by-step to broader problem-solving activity; see Lochbaum (1998) or Blaylock (2005) . Normally, the information state specifies once and for all how each thread of ongoing activity places relevant real-world entities at the center of attention (Grosz and Sidner, 1986; Poesio and Traum, 1997) .",
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"text": "Summary and Assessment could also be used to formalize the interpretation of successive utterances by relating two described situations. In fact, utterances can relate both to ongoing activity and to previous discourse. For example, consider (9) and (10), taken from Vi Hart's origami proof of the Pythagorean theorem-a visual narrative much like Child's where utterances describe ongoing events on the screen. 2 (9) We're just taking advantage of the symmetries of the square for the next step.",
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"text": "Hart uses (9) while folding a square into eight identical segments to explain how to do the folds. Hart uses (10) as she describes the next step of folding, to highlight its result for the proof. Thus, these utterances are linked to the accompanying activity but do not just report what's going on; and they're linked to the ongoing discourse as well. In fact, coherence theory already allows that utterances can bear multiple connections to prior discourse (Asher and Lascarides, 2003) . The closest parallel may be that of multimodal communication, where Lascarides and Stone (2009) argue that utterances bear discourse relations both to prior utterances and to simultaneous gesture.",
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"text": "Here's a telling case. It's the beginning of spring, 2012, and Jupiter and Venus are shining brightly very close together-just a few degrees apart-in the evening sky. The speaker has deployed a telescope facing a window over the western sky. When a visitor arrives, the speaker adjusts the telescope, then says, without any further demonstration, either (11) or (12).",
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"text": "We (and our informants) find these utterances unproblematic. But the coherence theory is required to get their interpretations right. These are comments on what's visible through the telescope. You can't see four of Jupiter's moons or the crescent of Venus with the naked eye and the speaker isn't suggesting otherwise. Moreover, the coherence relation is what's making it possible for the speaker to refer to Jupiter or Venus as that. To comment on the view through the telescope is to evoke whatever entity is centrally imaged in the telescope as a prominent candidate for reference. And nothing else will do. Given the astronomical conjunction, the speaker couldn't distinguish Jupiter from Venus by pointing, nor could the visitor judge which body the telescope was pointed at by the direction of the tube. Letting s 1 name the view through the telescope, we can formalize the key bits of interpretation: The representations get the meaning right. More importantly, they explain how the visitor can recover the logical form and understand the speaker's point by recognizing the relationship that makes the speaker's utterance coherent, even though the visitor can't identify which specific body the speaker is referring to until the visitor looks through the telescope for herself. By contrast, if all you had was representations like (6), grounded representations of deixis that made reference explicit, you'd incorrectly predict that there's an ambiguity to resolve in (11) and (12) even after you understand them as comments about the view through the scope. You'd have two grounded symbols for bright objects in the western sky, and you'd have to pick one as the referent of the speaker's demonstration-or ask for clarification. We take this as strong evidence against the idea that speakers and hearers must coordinate directly on demonstrative referents, a common view in both formal and computational semantics (Neale, 2004; Stone, 2004) .",
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"text": "Representing context dependence via coherence provides an attractive framework to divide interpretation into stages and minimize the problem solving that's necessary to compute logical form. Take (11) and its representation in (13). Here is a formalism that captures the meaning of the utterance while spelling out the further work that will be required to resolve reference. According to (13), when you look through the telescope, you'll find out what the referent of that is. Recognizing the logical form of the utterance this way should suffice for understanding. We expect that the discourse relation could be resolved based on shallow constraints on what information counts as a summary. And the system only needs to be tracking the ongoing activity enough to link utterances to relevant situations. It can ground its provisional understanding in perception and action as needed separately.",
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"text": "We have considered grounded interpretations in coherent discourse, and argued that referential interpretations in cases like (1), (2) and (11) are understood and derived relationally. This requires representations of interpretation that explicitly link discourse entities with grounded symbols and track the heterogeneous prominence that these entities get in virtue of the diverse relationships that utterances can bear to ongoing activity. In brief: we relate our talk to the world around us through suitable discourse relations.",
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"text": "Our approach commits us to representing utterances with specific kinds of interpretive connections to the world. Our characterization of these connections is obviously provisional, and corpus and modeling work is necessary to flesh out the parameters of the approach. We have also suggested that these representations will be useful in designing systems that communicate about the environment where they can perceive and act. Experiments with prototypes are clearly necessary to substantiate this claim.",
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