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In traditional plan-based dialogue interpretation systems, speech-acts are directly used for identifying the speaker's domain plans and little analysis is performed of the role of sentences in dialogue. This may lead to the activation of a large number of hypotheses on an agent's domain plans. In this paper, we describe how to interpret background sentences occurring in a dialogue by using knowledge coming from the linguistic and domain levels, and from a model of the user. We consider two kinds of utterances: the first one justifies the performance of subsequent speech-acts; the second represents information to be used for constraining the interpretation process of the other speech-act.
This work was partially supported by MURST 60%, by the Italian National Research Council (CNR), project “Pianificazione Automatica”
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Ardissono, L., Boella, G., Sestero, D. (1995). Recognizing preliminary sentences in dialogue interpretation. In: Gori, M., Soda, G. (eds) Topics in Artificial Intelligence. AI*IA 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 992. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60437-5_13
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