Abstract
This paper presents a simple model for speech act
generation in cooperative dialogue. Main goal
of the dialogue is the collaborative exchange of
information so that, if the information is available,
in the final state the participants believe
the answer to an initial question. The participants'
communicative strategy is determined by
the rules of the dialogue game. On the one hand,
the rules regulate which speech act will be performed
depending on a certain information state
'of one of the participants, aIlll, on the other hand,
they dictate how an information state will change
as a result of the performance of a particular
speech act. The resulting structure of the information
exchange can be complex, since the knowledge
to find an answer to the initia! question may
be distributed among the participants and may
therefore result in subdialogues and the generation
of counter-questions.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Dialogue management in natural language systems : Proceedings of the eleventh Twente workshop on language technology |
| Editors | S. LuperFoy, A. Nijholt, G. Veldhuijzen van Zanten |
| Place of Publication | Enschede |
| Publisher | Twente University |
| Pages | 71-79 |
| Publication status | Published - 1996 |