Understanding Spoken Language
Partitioned Networks for the Mathematical Modeling of Natural-LanguageSemantics, also NL-28
Partitioned Networks for the Mathematical Modeling of Natural-LanguageSemantics, also NL-28
Understanding goal-based stories.
Understanding goal-based stories.
A plan-based approach to speech act recognition
A plan-based approach to speech act recognition
Planning natural language utterances to satisfy multiple goals
Planning natural language utterances to satisfy multiple goals
Attention, intentions, and the structure of discourse
Computational Linguistics
Modeling the user's plans and goals
Computational Linguistics - Special issue on user modeling
Focusing for interpretation of pronouns
Computational Linguistics
A pragmatics-based approach to ellipsis resolution
Computational Linguistics
A pragmatics-based approach to understanding intersentential ellipsis
ACL '85 Proceedings of the 23rd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
User models: the problem of disparity
COLING '86 Proceedings of the 11th coference on Computational linguistics
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This paper discusses two problems central to the interpretation of utterances: determining the relationship between actions described in an utterance and events in the world, and inferring the "state of the world" from utterances. Knowledge of the language, knowledge about the general subject being discussed, and knowledge about the current situation are all necessary for this. The problem of determining an action referred to by a verb phrase is analogous to the problem of determining the object referred to by a noun phrase.This paper presents an approach to the problem of determining verb phrase referents in which knowledge about language, the subject area, and the dialog itself is combined to interpret such references. Presented and discussed are the kinds of knowledge necessary for interpreting references to actions, as well as algorithms for using that knowledge in interpreting dialog utterances about ongoing tasks and for drawing inferences about the task situation that are based on a given interpretation.