Abstract
Cooperative discourse behaviour in a NL Consulting System requires that users be kept informed of how the system’s utterances contribute to the current plan. In this paper we present a model for realising such behaviour based on the contents of the conversational record—a record of the mutually believed information obtainable from a discourse. The approach is formulated in the situation semantics framework.
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Für ein kooperierendes Diskursverhalten eines natürlichsprachigen Beratungssystems ist es erforderlich, daß für den Benutzer jederzeit klar ist, wie die Äußerungen des Systems zu einem vorliegenden Plan beitragen. In dieser Arbeit stellen wir ein Modell für ein solches Diskursverhalten vor, das auf dem Inhalt des Conversational Record basiert, der die fur Benutzer und System zugänglichen Informationen aus dem Diskurs beinhaltet. Der Ansatz ist im Rahmen der Situationsemantik formuliert.
This research has been sponsored by the Austrian Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung, Grant No. P7986-PHY. Elizabeth Garner is also currently supported by a Science and Engineering Research Council studentship, Award Number 90600238.
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Garner, E., Heinz, W. (1992). Being Informative: The Role of a Conversational Record in Plan-based Discourse. In: Görz, G. (eds) Konvens 92. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-77809-4_39
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