Effective problem solving among multiple agents requires a better understanding of the role of communication in collaboration. In this paper we show that there are communicative strategies that greatly improve the performance of resource-bounded agents, but that these strategies are highly sensitive to the task requirements, situation parameters and agents' resource limitations. We base our argument on two sources of evidence: (1) an analysis of a corpus of 55 problem solving dialogues, and (2) experimental simulations of collaborative problem solving dialogues in an experimental world, Design-World, where we parameterize task requirements, agents' resources and communicative strategies.
@article{arxiv.cmp-lg/9408015,
title = {Experimentally Evaluating Communicative Strategies: The Effect of the Task},
author = {Marilyn A. Walker},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9408015},
year = {2008}
}
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8 pages, latex with psfig, lingmacros.sty, available at ftp://atlantic.merl.com/pub/walker/aaai94.ps.Z