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A Pragmatics-First Approach to the Analysis and Generation of Dialogues

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Integration of new utterances into context is a central task in any model for rational (human-machine) dialogues in natural language. In this paper, a pragmatics-first approach to specifying the meaning of utterances in terms of plans is presented. These plans are computed during a dialogue on the basis of information about the current situation that is updated continually. New contributions are integrated into a dialogue if they help in establishing a new plan, or if they deliver important information for executing an already established plan.

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  1. Bavarian Research Cooperation for Situated, Individualized, and Personalized Human-Computer Interaction, University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Haberstraße 2, D-91058, Erlangen

    Bernd Ludwig

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  1. Institute for Artificial Intelligence, Ulm University, Germany

    Susanne Biundo

  2. Fakultät für Ingenieurwissenschaften und Informatik, Universität Ulm, 89069, Ulm, v

    Thom Frühwirth

  3. Institute of Neural Information Processing, University of Ulm, D-89069, Ulm, Germany

    Günther Palm

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Ludwig, B. (2004). A Pragmatics-First Approach to the Analysis and Generation of Dialogues. In: Biundo, S., Frühwirth, T., Palm, G. (eds) KI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3238. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30221-6_8

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