1.2.7 Reference resolution

Reference resolution.

System:

Which floor do you want?

User:

The top floor.

System:

I'm taking you to the 5th floor.

The elevator does not give a floor number but a referring expression for it. The elevator is able to resolve the referring expression and realise that ``The top floor'' is the fifth floor.

System:

Which floor do you want?

User:

Phonetics

System:

Do you want the 4th or the 5th floor?

User:

The fifth floor, please.

The same here. The system resolves ``Phonetics'' to be referring to either the fourth or the fifth floor. Being aware of the ambiguity, it requests a clarification.

Current state and possibility of extension: See Section 2.4.6. See also description of elevator, Section 2.3.


Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Stephan Walter and Aljoscha Burchardt
Version 1.2.5 (20030212)