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title: "Generating Information-Sharing Subdialogues in Expert-User Consultation"
authors:
  - "Jennifer Chu-Carroll"
  - "Sandra Carberry"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/160"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0160.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1995
pages: "1243-1249"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
---

# Generating Information-Sharing Subdialogues in Expert-User Consultation

Jennifer Chu-Carroll, Sandra Carberry

*Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1243-1249.

## 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.