Generating Information-Sharing Subdialogues in Expert-User Consultation
Abstract
In expert-consultation dialogues, it is inevitable that an agent will at times have insufficient information to determine whether to accept or reject a proposal by the other agent. This results in the need for the agent to initiate an information-sharing subdialogue to form a set of shared beliefs within which the agents can effectively re-evaluate the proposal. This paper presents a computational strategy for initiating such information-sharing subdialogues to resolve the system's uncertainty regarding the acceptance of a user proposal. Our model determines when information-sharing should be pursued, selects a focus of information-sharing among multiple uncertain beliefs, chooses the most effective information-sharing strategy, and utilizes the newly obtained information to re-evaluate the user proposal. Furthermore, our model is capable of handling embedded information-sharing subdialogues.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- January 1997
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.cmp-lg/9701003
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cmp-lg/9701003
- Bibcode:
- 1997cmp.lg....1003C
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Computation and Language
- E-Print:
- 9 pages, 1 figure