SOAR: an architecture for general intelligence
Artificial Intelligence
Information state and dialogue management in the TRINDI dialogue move engine toolkit
Natural Language Engineering
TINLAP '75 Proceedings of the 1975 workshop on Theoretical issues in natural language processing
Interpreting vague utterances in context
COLING '04 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Computational Linguistics
Dialogue systems for virtual environments
YIWCALA '10 Proceedings of the NAACL HLT 2010 Young Investigators Workshop on Computational Approaches to Languages of the Americas
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Comparative constructions are common in dialogue, especially in negotiative dialogue where a choice must be made between different options, and options must be evaluated using multiple metrics. Comparatives explicitly assert a relationship between two elements along a scale, but they may also implicate positions on the scale especially if constraints on the possible values are present. Dialogue systems must often understand more from a comparative than the explicit assertion in order to understand why the comparative was uttered. In this paper we examine the pragmatic meaning of comparative constructions from a computational perspective.