{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Generating Information-Sharing Subdialogues in Expert-User Consultation","authors":[{"name":"Jennifer Chu-Carroll","slug":"jennifer-chu-carroll","given":"Jennifer","family":"Chu-Carroll","affiliation":""},{"name":"Sandra Carberry","slug":"sandra-carberry","given":"Sandra","family":"Carberry","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"In expert-consultation dialogues, it is inevitable that an agent will at times have insufficient information to determine whether to accept or reject a proposal by the other agent. This results in the need for the agent to initiate an information-sharing subdialogue to form a set of shared beliefs within which the agents can effectively re-evaluate the proposal. This paper presents a computational strategy for initiating such information-sharing subdialogues to resolve the system's uncertainty regarding the acceptance of a user proposal. Our model determines when information-sharing should be pursued, selects a focus of information-sharing among multiple uncertain beliefs, chooses the most effective information-sharing strategy, and utilizes the newly obtained information to re-evaluate the user proposal. Furthermore, our model is capable of handling embedded information-sharing subdialogues.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/160","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0160.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/160.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/bibtex/160","volume":{"slug":"1995","title":"Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1995","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/","year":1995,"location":"Montréal, Québec, Canada","dates":"","editors":"Chris S. Mellish","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Natural Language","track":"Natural Language","number":160,"pages":{"first":1243,"last":1249},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}