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In any mixed-intiative dialogue it is important to be able to recognise and deal with problems and inconsistencies as they arise. For example, one participant may interpret an utterance in a way that was not intended. The other participant may be able to recognise this from the first participant’s later utterance(s), and offer, a clarification. This type of misunderstanding and repair may occur frequently in tutorial and advisory dialogues, where, for example, one can not rely on users to be able to explicitly tell when they have misunderstood an utterance. This paper shows how a belief revision approach maybe used to model this, and related types of repair sequences in dialogue.
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Cawsey, A. (1992). A Belief Revision Model of Repair Sequences in Dialogue. In: Costa, E. (eds) New Directions for Intelligent Tutoring Systems. NATO ASI Series, vol 91. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77681-6_12
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