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Intentions and Information in Discourse
This paper is about the flow of inference between communicative intentions,
discourse structure and the domain during discourse processing. We augment a
theory of discourse interpretation with a theory of distinct mental attitudes
and reasoning about them, in order to provide an account of how the attitudes
interact with reasoning about discourse structure
Reconstructed Intentions in Collaborative Problem Solving Dialogues
We provide evidence that speech act recognition, is 1) difficult for humans to do and 2) likely to misidentify proposals involving reconstructed intentions. We examine the reliability of coding for speech acts in collaborative dialogues and we present an approach for recognizing reconstructed proposals using domain context and other more easily recognized features. 1 Introduction Speech act recognition plays a prominent role in dialogue understanding, in traditional approaches that infer a plan using plan construction operators [PA80], [LA90], [LC91, LC92], and in more recent techniques relying on statistical correlations or finite state machines [RM95, QDL + 97]. Both approaches recognize surface speech acts, using surface form and information provided by the discourse context and the discourse operators, or by a finite state approximation of the planning information. These approaches assume that it is (relatively) simple to recognize speech acts, and that speech acts are a requi..
A metatheory integrating social, biological and technological factors in information behavior research
A metatheory is presented and diagrammed as an integrated conceptual framework for information seeking and use. It represents the symbiotic relationship between users and the technological environment. Receiving and adapting to information is achieved through each userâs biological satisficing procedures defined by group information practices, namely, noticing information, appraising it and evaluating it. Information use is achieved through optimizing procedures, namely, activating goal-setting intentions, constructing a plan and executing it through acting upon the technological environment to attain oneâs goals. Evidence is given by listing a variety of information seeking behaviors that others have identified in their review of the literature, then showing how each element fits within the model, as well as by analyzing the interpretive discourse of college students while engaged in carrying out assigned information tasks. Each discourse segment in the samples was categorized as either an affective, cognitive or sensorimotor procedure carried out by the user, and transcribed as a string or sequence. This code sequence was then compared with the sequence produced when the modelâs mapping is followed. Every discourse sample inspected contained the six categories specified by the model. The metatheory is suitable for providing a common framework for discussing various areas of information behavior research
THE FEEDBACK ELABORATION AND ITS IMPLICATIONS TOWARDS INDONESIAN SUBJECT
Learning Indonesian as a school subject can be intended as an effort to develop Indonesian language functions for Senior High School students to obtain information, control behavior, interact with others, express personal feelings or intentions, develop learning skills, and use language to convey information. To achieve this purpose, the teacher must do learning optimally. This paper aims to elaborate on the various phenomena of learning Indonesian in Senior High school and various references as the basis of language and conclusions. The elaboration feedback strategy is the focus of this paper and intended as a discourse and input for the teacher as the person in charge of learning process in the classroom
The Use of Knowledge Preconditions in Language Processing
If an agent does not possess the knowledge needed to perform an action, it
may privately plan to obtain the required information on its own, or it may
involve another agent in the planning process by engaging it in a dialogue. In
this paper, we show how the requirements of knowledge preconditions can be used
to account for information-seeking subdialogues in discourse. We first present
an axiomatization of knowledge preconditions for the SharedPlan model of
collaborative activity (Grosz & Kraus, 1993), and then provide an analysis of
information-seeking subdialogues within a general framework for discourse
processing. In this framework, SharedPlans and relationships among them are
used to model the intentional component of Grosz and Sidner's (1986) theory of
discourse structure.Comment: 7 pages, LaTeX, uses ijcai95.sty, postscript figure
Modelling Users, Intentions, and Structure in Spoken Dialog
We outline how utterances in dialogs can be interpreted using a partial first
order logic. We exploit the capability of this logic to talk about the truth
status of formulae to define a notion of coherence between utterances and
explain how this coherence relation can serve for the construction of AND/OR
trees that represent the segmentation of the dialog. In a BDI model we
formalize basic assumptions about dialog and cooperative behaviour of
participants. These assumptions provide a basis for inferring speech acts from
coherence relations between utterances and attitudes of dialog participants.
Speech acts prove to be useful for determining dialog segments defined on the
notion of completing expectations of dialog participants. Finally, we sketch
how explicit segmentation signalled by cue phrases and performatives is covered
by our dialog model.Comment: 17 page
Limited Attention and Discourse Structure
This squib examines the role of limited attention in a theory of discourse
structure and proposes a model of attentional state that relates current
hierarchical theories of discourse structure to empirical evidence about human
discourse processing capabilities. First, I present examples that are not
predicted by Grosz and Sidner's stack model of attentional state. Then I
consider an alternative model of attentional state, the cache model, which
accounts for the examples, and which makes particular processing predictions.
Finally I suggest a number of ways that future research could distinguish the
predictions of the cache model and the stack model.Comment: 9 pages, uses twoside,cl,lingmacro
Gender discourse, awareness, and alternative responses for men in everyday living
In this paper, the authors use examples from their experiences to explore the nuances and complexities of contemporary gender practices. They draw on discourse and positioning theories to identify the ways in which culturally dominant, and difficult to notice, gender constructions help shape everyday experiences. In addition, the authors share their view that there are benefits in developing skills in noticing contemporary practices made available by dominant gender constructions. Such noticing expands possibilities for ways of responding and relating that might produce outcomes for men and women that fit with their hopes for living
Developing a corpus of strategic conversation in The Settlers of Catan
International audienceWe describe a dialogue model and an implemented annotation scheme for a pilot corpus of annotated online chats concerning bargaining negotiations in the game The Settlers of Catan. We will use this model and data to analyze how conversations proceed in the absence of strong forms of cooperativity, where agents have diverging motives. Here we concentrate on the description of our annotation scheme for negotiation dialogues, illustrated with our pilot data, and some perspectives for future research on the issue
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