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Generating Information-Sharing Subdialogues in Expert-User Consultation

cmp-lg 2008-02-03 v1 Computation and Language

Abstract

In expert-consultation dialogues, it is inevitable that an agent will at times have insufficient information to determine whether to accept or reject a proposal by the other agent. This results in the need for the agent to initiate an information-sharing subdialogue to form a set of shared beliefs within which the agents can effectively re-evaluate the proposal. This paper presents a computational strategy for initiating such information-sharing subdialogues to resolve the system's uncertainty regarding the acceptance of a user proposal. Our model determines when information-sharing should be pursued, selects a focus of information-sharing among multiple uncertain beliefs, chooses the most effective information-sharing strategy, and utilizes the newly obtained information to re-evaluate the user proposal. Furthermore, our model is capable of handling embedded information-sharing subdialogues.

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@article{arxiv.cmp-lg/9701003,
  title  = {Generating Information-Sharing Subdialogues in Expert-User Consultation},
  author = {Jennifer Chu-Carroll and Sandra Carberry},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9701003},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

9 pages, 1 figure; uses epsf.sty, times.sty, and named