Generating interactive explanations

Authors:
Alison Cawsey
Affiliations:
Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England
Venue:
AAAI'91 Proceedings of the ninth National conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 1
Year:
1991

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Abstract

Existing approaches to text generation fail to consider how interactions with the user may be managed within a coherent explanation or description. This paper presents an approach to generating such interactive explanations based on two levels of discourse planning - content planning and dialogue planning. The system developed allows aspects of the changing context to be monitored with an explanation, and the developing explanation to depend on this changing context. Interruptions from the user are allowed and dealt with (and resumed from) within the context of that explanation.