Negotiating causal implicatures

Authors:
Luciana Benotti;Patrick Blackburn
Affiliations:
Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Ciudad Universitaria, Córdoba, Argentina;INRIA Nancy Grand-Est, Equipe TALARIS, Villers lès Nancy, France
Venue:
SIGDIAL '10 Proceedings of the 11th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue
Year:
2010

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Abstract

In this paper we motivate and describe a dialogue manager which is able to infer and negotiate causal implicatures. A causal implicature is a type of Gricean relation implicature, and the ability to infer them is crucial in situated dialogue. Because situated dialogue interleaves conversational acts and physical acts, the dialogue manager needs to have a grasp on causal implicatures in order not only to decide what physical acts to do next but also to generate causally-aware clarifications.