Frame of Reference: Addressing the Challenges of Common Ground Representation in Situational Dialogs

arXiv:2601.09365v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Common ground plays a critical role in situated spoken dialogs, where interlocutors must establish and maintain shared references to entities, events, and relations to sustain coherent interaction in a shared space and over time. With the increasing presence of embodied conversational agents and social robots, the ability to correctly ground this kind of conversational content in order to refer back later also becomes important for dialog