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← Language & CommunicationWhy does deixis in human-robot interaction fail when grounding assumptions diverge?
A)Symbol intermixing reduces precision
B)Parse trees exhibit higher entropy
C)Indexical reference loses shared context✓
D)Semantic pointers trigger false positives
💡 Explanation
Deixis failure occurs because indexical reference requires a shared context to resolve the 'pointing' gesture or word to a specific object or location; therefore, without shared grounding, the reference is lost, rather than issues arising from symbolic mixing or false positives.
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