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Discourse obligations in dialogue processing

Year: 1994

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: We show that in modeling social interaction, particularly dialogue, the attitude of obligation can be a useful adjunct to the popularly considered attitudes of belief, goal, and intention and their mutual and shared counterparts. In particular, we show how discourse obligations can be used to account in a natural manner for the connection between a question and its answer in dialogue and how obligations can be used along with other parts of the discourse context to extend the coverage of a dialogue system.

Source: Proceedings of the conference - Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting

DOI: 10.3115/981732.981733

Authors: David R. Traum, James F. Allen

Institution: University of Rochester

Language: English

Topic: Speech and dialogue systems

Subfield: Artificial Intelligence

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: University of Rochester, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, Office of Naval Research

Award: G8876996369