Plan recognition and discourse analysis: an integrated approach for understanding dialogues
Plan recognition and discourse analysis: an integrated approach for understanding dialogues
Inferring domain plans in question-answering
Inferring domain plans in question-answering
Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse
Towards a Computational Theory of Definite Anaphora Comprehension in English Discourse
On knowing what to say: planning speech acts.
On knowing what to say: planning speech acts.
The representation and use of focus in dialogue understanding.
The representation and use of focus in dialogue understanding.
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
Communication and miscommunication (language, artificial intelligence, natural understanding)
Communication and miscommunication (language, artificial intelligence, natural understanding)
Pragmatic modeling in information system interfaces (goals, dialogue, plans, ill-formedness)
Pragmatic modeling in information system interfaces (goals, dialogue, plans, ill-formedness)
Correcting object-related misconceptions (natural language)
Correcting object-related misconceptions (natural language)
The pragmatics of referring and the modality of communication
Computational Linguistics
A plan recognition model for clarification subdialogues
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A syntactic approach to discourse semantics
ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Dependencies of discourse structure on the modality of communication: telephone vs. teletype
ACL '82 Proceedings of the 20th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Multimodal Reference to Objects: An Empirical Approach
CMC '98 Revised Papers from the Second International Conference on Cooperative Multimodal Communication
Does conversation analysis have a role in computational linguistics?
Computational Linguistics
A pragmatics-based approach to ellipsis resolution
Computational Linguistics
Reference and reference failures
TINLAP '87 Proceedings of the 1987 workshop on Theoretical issues in natural language processing
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The goal of this work is the enrichment of human-machine interactions in a natural language environment. Because a speaker and listener cannot be assured to have the same beliefs, contexts, perceptions, backgrounds, or goals at each point in a conversation, difficulties and mistakes arise when a listener interprets a speaker's utterance. These mistakes can lead to various kinds of misunderstandings between speaker and listener, including reference failures or failure to understand the speaker's intention. We call these misunderstandings miscommunication. Such mistakes can slow, and possibly break down, communication. Our goal is to recognize and isolate such miscommunications and circumvent them. This paper highlights a particular class of miscommunication - reference problems - by describing a case study and techniques for avoiding failures of reference. We want to illustrate a framework less restrictive than earlier ones by allowing a speaker leeway in forming an utterance about a task and in determining the conversational vehicle to deliver it. The paper also promotes a new view for extensional reference.