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Perception of mental states from communication

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Intelligent Perceptual Systems

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Perceiving means building or updating an internal model of the external world from the signals received by the sensors. In User-Modelling one of the problems is that of perceiving the user's beliefs and desires, i. e. building or updating a model of the user's mental state from his utterances. In this paper we present two speech acts based abductive methods to recognize the speaker's knowledge and intentions.

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  1. Istituto di Informatica, Università di Ancona, Ancona, Italy

    Aldo Franco Dragoni & Paolo Puliti

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Dragoni, A.F., Puliti, P. (1993). Perception of mental states from communication. In: Roberto, V. (eds) Intelligent Perceptual Systems. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 745. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57379-8_16

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