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Karolina Eliasson’s research lies at the intersection of human-robot interaction, natural language processing, and artificial intelligence, with a particular focus on dialogue systems for robotic platforms. Her major contribution is pioneering the use of case-based reasoning (CBR) as a unified framework for both understanding natural language and planning actions in human-robot dialogue. In her most-cited work (2007, 13 citations), she demonstrated how a single case base could handle reference resolution, sub-dialogue management, and action planning for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) operator. This approach was innovative because it allowed the system to learn from experience without requiring extensive hand-coded rules or static knowledge bases. Her subsequent papers (2005, 5 citations; 2006, 3 citations; 2009, 2 citations) further developed this framework, showing how CBR could integrate dialogue management with machine learning and planning. While her citation counts are modest, her work was foundational in demonstrating that case-based techniques could provide lifelong learning capabilities for robotic dialogue systems, a concept that anticipated later developments in adaptive human-robot interaction. Her research remains relevant for anyone interested in building flexible, learning-enabled dialogue systems for autonomous robots.