Classical planning and causal implicatures
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Classical planning and causal implicatures. / Blackburn, Patrick Rowan; Benotti, Luciana.
2011. Paper presented at 7th International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, Karlsruhe, Germany.Publication: Research - peer-review › Paper
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T1 - Classical planning and causal implicatures
A1 - Blackburn,Patrick Rowan
A1 - Benotti,Luciana
AU - Blackburn,Patrick Rowan
AU - Benotti,Luciana
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - In this paper we motivate and describe a dialogue manager (called Frolog) which uses classical planning to infer causal implicatures. A causal implicature is a type of Gricean relation implicature, a highly context dependent form of inference. As we shall see, causal implicatures are important for understanding the structure of task-oriented dialogues. Such dialogues locate conversational acts in contexts containing both pending tasks and the acts which bring them about. The ability to infer causal implicatures lets us interleave decisions about "how to sequence actions" with decisions about "when to generate clarification requests"; as a result we can model task-oriented dialogue as an interactive process locally structured by negotiation of the underlying task. We give several examples of Frolog-human dialog, discuss the limitations imposed by the classical planning paradigm, and indicate the potential relevance of our work for other relation implicatures
AB - In this paper we motivate and describe a dialogue manager (called Frolog) which uses classical planning to infer causal implicatures. A causal implicature is a type of Gricean relation implicature, a highly context dependent form of inference. As we shall see, causal implicatures are important for understanding the structure of task-oriented dialogues. Such dialogues locate conversational acts in contexts containing both pending tasks and the acts which bring them about. The ability to infer causal implicatures lets us interleave decisions about "how to sequence actions" with decisions about "when to generate clarification requests"; as a result we can model task-oriented dialogue as an interactive process locally structured by negotiation of the underlying task. We give several examples of Frolog-human dialog, discuss the limitations imposed by the classical planning paradigm, and indicate the potential relevance of our work for other relation implicatures
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-24279-3_4
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-24279-3_4
ER -