Plans, goals, and language

Journal Article · Tue Jul 01 04:00:00 EDT 1986 · Proc. IEEE; (United States)

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/PROC.1986.13573· OSTI ID:5307189

Allen, J F; Litman, D J

One of the most promising computational approaches to representing context in natural language systems has been based on work in general problem solving. In this approach, plans are used both to represent the domain of discourse as well as the communication process itself. Using a simplified framework for planning and action reasoning, we describe techniques that allow systems to handle many dialogues that are problematic for other systems, including the use of sentence fragments, indirect speech, helpful responses, the tracking of the topic of conversations both with and without interrupting subdialogues, and topic change.

• Research Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627
• OSTI ID: 5307189
• Journal Information: Proc. IEEE; (United States), Journal Name: Proc. IEEE; (United States) Vol. 74:7; ISSN IEEPA
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS
990200* -- Mathematics & Computers
COMMUNICATIONS
DECISION MAKING
MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
NATURAL LANGUAGE
PLANNING
PROGRAMMING
PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES
SPEECH
STANDARDIZED TERMINOLOGY
USES