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Towards a Principled Representation of Discourse Plans

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

Abstract

We argue that discourse plans must capture the intended causal and decompositional relations between communicative actions. We present a planning algorithm, DPOCL, that builds plan structures that properly capture these relations, and show how these structures are used to solve the problems that plagued previous discourse planners, and allow a system to participate effectively and flexibly in an ongoing dialogue.

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@article{arxiv.cmp-lg/9406004,
  title  = {Towards a Principled Representation of Discourse Plans},
  author = {R. Michael Young and Johanna D. Moore and Martha E. Pollack},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cmp-lg/9406004},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

requires cogsci94.sty, psfig.sty