Confirmations and Joint Action
Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Natural Language. Pages 951-958.
Abstract
We argue that current plan-based theories of discourse do not by themselves explain prevalent phenomena in even simple task-oriented dialogues. The purpose of this paper is to show how one difficult-to-explain feature of these dialogues, confirmations, follows from the joint or team nature of the underlying task. Specifically, we review the concept of a joint intention and we argue that the conversants in a task-oriented dialogue jointly intend to accomplish the task. From this basis, we derive the goals underlying the pervasive use of confirmations observed in a recent experiment. We conclude with a discussion on generalizing the analysis presented here to characterize dialogue itself as a joint activity.
@inproceedings{ijcai1991p140,
title = {Confirmations and Joint Action},
author = {Cohen, Philip R. and Levesque, Hector J.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-91}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {John Mylopoulos and Ray Reiter},
pages = {951--958},
year = {1991},
month = {8},
note = {Natural Language},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/140},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Confirmations and Joint Action AU - Cohen, Philip R. AU - Levesque, Hector J. T2 - Proceedings of the Twelfth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-91 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1991 SP - 951 EP - 958 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1991/140 ER -Copied
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