Summary: A Plan Based Agent Architecture for
Interpreting Natural Language Dialogue
Liliana Ardissono, Guido Boella and Leonardo Lesmo
Dipartimento di Informatica, Universit`a di Torino,
Corso Svizzera n.185, 10149 Torino, Italy.
email: fliliana, guido, lesmog@di.unito.it
http://www.di.unito.it/f~liliana,~guido,~lesmog
This work is going to appear in the
International Journal of Human­Computer Studies, ACADEMIC PRESS
(http://www.academicpress.com/www/journal/hc.htm)
Abstract
This paper describes a plan­based agent architecture for modeling NL cooper­
ative dialogue; in particular, the paper focuses on the interpretation dialogue and
explanation of its coherence by means of the recognition of the speakers' underlying
intentions. The approach we propose makes it possible to analyze and explain in
a uniform way several apparently unrelated linguistic phenomena, which have been
often studied separately and treated via ad­hoc methods in the models of dialogue
presented in the literature. Our model of linguistic interaction is based on the
idea that dialogue can be seen as any other interaction among agents: therefore,
domain­level and linguistic actions are treated in a similar way.

Source: Ardissono, Liliana - Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Torino

Collections: Computer Technologies and Information Sciences