Why does anaphora resolution in spoken dialogue systems often fail when processing deictic expressions?

💡 Explanation

Anaphora resolution fails because contextual grounding shifts faster than the system can update its memory of deictic references; therefore, the system loses track of the referent. This occurs rather than lexical ambiguities or parsing issues which the system can generally handle in stable contexts.

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