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act production, interpretation, and the repair of misunderstandings. A unified theory has been developed by characterizing the generation of utterances as default reasoning and using abduction to characterize inter- pretation and repair.

fourth-position repair. To model the repair of misunderstandings, this thesis combines both intentional and social accounts of discourse, unifying theories of speech act production, interpretation, and repair. In intentional accounts, speakers use their beliefs, goals, and expectations to decide what

In this paper we propose a general logic programming framework allowing the recognition of plans and intentions behind speech acts through abductive reasoning. These inferences enables each agent to have an active participation in dialogues, namely in cooperative informationseeking dialogues

This paper examines the task of understanding dialogues in terms of the mental states of the participating agents. We present a motivating example that clarifies the challenges this problem involves and then outline a theory of dialogue interpretation based on abductive inference

ion rename by copy oe rename file Figure 1: An example planning theory Speech act understanding [ Hinkelman, 1990 ] treats different features in the input, such as the mood of a sentence or the presence of a particular lexical item, as manifestations of different speech acts. For example, "

Using the achievements of my research group over the last 30+ years, I provide evidence to support the following hypothesis: By complementing each other, cooperat-ing reasoning process can achieve much more than they could if they only acted individually. Most of the work of my group has been

field studied by Pragmatics but the main study of this paper is discussing the indispensible effort that should be made by speakers when conveying an idea by adding more details possible in order to prevent insulting. The paper deals with all features of Pragmatics including speech acts, reference

largely to the special context of interacting with a computer, they are not uncommon in conversations among people. Limitations of speech recognition hardware and software may severely limit the abilities of computers to interpret a user’s utterances with certainty. Furthermore, automated inference

-system. Within this approach the goal is to move as much as possible of the cognitive load from the user to the IR-system. This requires the analysis and modelling of the search process. For this purpose we employ a model of the dialog that is based on a speech act analysis and decomposition (Sitter & Stein