Probabilistic state-dependent grammars for plan recognition

  • Authors:
  • David V. Pynadath;Michael P. Wellman

  • Affiliations:
  • Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, Marina del Rey, CA;Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

  • Venue:
  • UAI'00 Proceedings of the Sixteenth conference on Uncertainty in artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Techniques for plan recognition under uncertainty require a stochastic model of the plangeneration process. We introduce probabilistic state-dependent grammars (PSDGs) to represent an agent's plan-generation process. The PSDG language model extends probabilistic contextfree grammars (PCFGs) by allowing production probabilities to depend on an explicit model of the planning agent's internal and external state. Given a PSDG description of the plan-generation process, we can then use inference algorithms that exploit the particular independence properties of the PSDG language to efficiently answer plan-recognition queries. The combination of the PSDG language model and inference algorithms extends the range of plan-recognition domains for which practical probabilistic inference is possible, as illustrated by applications in traffic monitoring and air combat.