Collaborating on Referring Expressions
Abstract:
This paper presents a computational model of how conversational participants collaborate in making re-ferring expressions. The model is based on the plan-ning paradigm. It employs plans for constructing and recognizing referring expressions and meta-plans for constructing and recognizing clarifications. This al-lows the model to account for the generation and un-derstanding both of referring expressions and of their clarifications in a uniform framework using a single knowledge base. In the dialogue below 1, person A wants to refer to some object and have person B identify it. Person A does this by uttering a referring expression; however, A's expression
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