Title :
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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Multi Agent Systems, 1998. Proceedings. International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Paris
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-8500-X
DOI :
10.1109/ICMAS.1998.699064
