In a paper presented at the 14th International Conference on Computational Semantics, Army researchers have developed a natural language understanding, or NLU, a pipeline for robots that can be easily transferred over to any computer program or agent and progressively overpowers the variability that we see in natural language This means that regardless of how a soldier communicates with the robot, the fundamental intent of the language will be understood and can be acted upon, given both the current conversation and environmental or situational context.