Designing conversation policies using joint intention theory

Author

Smith, Ira A. ; Cohen, Philip R. ; Bradshaw, Jeffrey M. ; Greaves, Mark ; Holmback, Heather

Author_Institution

Center for Human Comput. Commun., Oregon Graduate Inst. of Sci. & Technol., Beaverton, OR, USA

fYear

1998

fDate

3-7 Jul 1998

Firstpage

269

Lastpage

276

Abstract

In this paper we apply the semantics sketched by Smith and Cohen (1996) to the system of conversational policies developed for KAoS. We show that the compositional nature of the speech-acts and their semantics allows us to provide a comprehensive semantics for the conversational policies; and that we can use the generated semantics to analyze policies, to alter policies, and to show how the policies can be combined to form complete dialogues and protocol control strategies. We also show that the semantics provides us with a valuable tool to analyze and to suggest corrections for the conversational policies

Keywords

computational linguistics; cooperative systems; semantic networks; software agents; conversation policies design; conversational policies; joint intention theory; multi-agent systems; protocol control strategies; semantics; speech-acts; Cancer; Communication industry; Computer industry; Extranets; Humans; Information technology; Intelligent agent; Medical services; NASA; Speech analysis;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multi Agent Systems, 1998. Proceedings. International Conference on

Conference_Location

Paris

Print_ISBN

0-8186-8500-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699064

Filename

699064