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We analyze naturally occurring collaborative responses of the form “Not (if) c/Yes if c”. We distinguish two cases: when c is established in the context, the conditional response indicates a possible need to revise c, and thus opens negotiation; otherwise, the conditional response raises the question whether c. We discuss the contexts where such responses are used and the dialogue acts they realize. We propose a uniform approach to their generation and interpretation.
Work on this paper was supported by SIRIDUS (Specification, Interaction and Reconfiguration in Dialogue Understanding Systems), EC Project IST-1999-10516. We would like to thank Geert-Jan Kruijff for extensive comments on our work.
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Karagjosova, E., Kruijff-Korbayová, I. (2002). An Analysis of Conditional Responses in Dialogue. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46154-X_43
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