Mutual Beliefs in Conversational Systems: Their Role in Referring Expressions
Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 603-604.
Abstract
Shared knowledge and beliefs affect conversational sit uations in various ways. One aspect in which they play a role is the choice of r e ferring expressions. It is of interest to analyse this role since a natural language system must be able to decide when it can use a particular referring expression; or al tern atively what a particular exp ression refers to. In this paper we attempt to formally c haracterise conditions for these. Specifically, we differ with the tradition al notion of mutual knowledge and helief, state a conversational conjecture that convinces us to do so, express a weakened notion in a formal system for reasoning about knowledge, and show how this mi gh t be used to decide on satisfactory referring expressions . It is desirable to express a weakened notion of mutual belief that parallels that for mutual knowledge; this aspect is currently being investigated.
@inproceedings{ijcai1983p141,
title = {Mutual Beliefs in Conversational Systems: Their Role in Referring Expressions},
author = {Nadathur, Gopalan and Joshi, Aravind K.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-83}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Alan Bundy},
pages = {603--604},
year = {1983},
note = {Natural Language},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/141},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Mutual Beliefs in Conversational Systems: Their Role in Referring Expressions AU - Nadathur, Gopalan AU - Joshi, Aravind K. T2 - Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-83 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1983 SP - 603 EP - 604 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/141 ER -Copied
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