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In building a system capable of natural language interaction with a human being, a key issue is how the context (dialogic and pragmatic) constrains the structure of the ongoing dialogue1. In fact, the context provides the basis both for the recognition of an agent’s goals and plans and for the construction of an answer that “makes sense”.
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Barboni, P., Sestero, D. (1999). Choosing a Response Using Problem Solving Plans and Rhetorical Relations. In: Wilks, Y. (eds) Machine Conversations. The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, vol 511. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5687-6_7
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