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title: "Recognizing Intended Meaning and Speakers' Plans"
authors:
  - "Candace L. Sidner"
  - "David J. Israel"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/41"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0041.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "203-207"
track: "Cognitive Science"
keywords:
---

# Recognizing Intended Meaning and Speakers' Plans

Candace L. Sidner, David J. Israel

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 203-207.

## Abstract

Human conversational participants depend upon t he ability of their partners to recognize their i ntentions, so that those partners may respond ap pr opriately. In such interactions, the speaker c an encode his intentions that the hearer act in a variety of sentence types. Instead of telling the hearer what to do 1 the speaker may just state his goals, and expect a response that meets these goals . This paper presents a new model for recognizing the speaker's intended meaning in d etermining a response. We show that this recogn i tion makes use of the speaker's plan, his beliefs about the domain and about the hearer's relevant capacities.