The Need for Referent Identification as a Planned Action
Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 31-35.
Abstract
The paper presents evidence that speakers often attempt to get hearers to identify referents as a separate step in the speaker's plan. Many of the communicative acts pert"ormed in service of such referent identification steps can be analyzed by extending a plan-based theory of communication for task-oriented dialogues to include anrepresenting a hearer's identifying the referent of a description -- an action that is reasoned about in speakers' and hearers' plans. The phenomenon of addressing referent identification as a separate goal is shown to distinguish telephone from teletype task-oriented dialogues and thus has implications for the design of speech-understanding systems.
@inproceedings{ijcai1981p7,
title = {The Need for Referent Identification as a Planned Action},
author = {Cohen, Philip R.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-81}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Roger C. Schank},
pages = {31--35},
year = {1981},
month = {8},
note = {Natural Language},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/7},
}
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