Supporting Flexibility And Transmutability: Multi-Agent Processing And Role-Switching In A Pragmatically Oriented Dialog System (1994)
| Venue: | Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. 381--390 |
| Citations: | 6 - 4 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ndiaye94supportingflexibility,
author = {Alassane Ndiaye and Anthony Jameson},
title = {Supporting Flexibility And Transmutability: Multi-Agent Processing And Role-Switching In A Pragmatically Oriented Dialog System},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, Applications. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing. 381--390},
year = {1994},
pages = {381--390},
publisher = {World Scientific Publishing}
}
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Abstract
Ways of achieving two desirable characteristics of pragmatically oriented dialog processing are discussed: (1) Flexible cooperation among the system's modules maximizes the system's exploitation of its knowledge and of its reasoning capabilities. (2) The ability to take either (or any) of the dialog roles in its domain enhances the system's ability to anticipate and interpret its dialog partner's reasoning and behavior. Ways of attaining these goals are being explored in the system PRACMA, which models noncooperative dialogs between a buyer and a seller. Attainment of the first goal is supported by the multi-agent architecture CHANNELS, which has been designed specifically for natural language systems. Two attempts to achieve the second goal are discussed which have been realized in two different modules of PRACMA: bidirectional, role-independent dialog planning operators; and Bayesian meta-networks for reasoning about the dialog partner's beliefs and evaluations. 1 Introduction 1.1 ...
