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An Analysis of Conditional Responses in Dialogue

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Text, Speech and Dialogue (TSD 2002)

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We analyze naturally occurring collaborative responses of the form “Not (if) c/Yes if c”. We distinguish two cases: when c is established in the context, the conditional response indicates a possible need to revise c, and thus opens negotiation; otherwise, the conditional response raises the question whether c. We discuss the contexts where such responses are used and the dialogue acts they realize. We propose a uniform approach to their generation and interpretation.

Work on this paper was supported by SIRIDUS (Specification, Interaction and Reconfiguration in Dialogue Understanding Systems), EC Project IST-1999-10516. We would like to thank Geert-Jan Kruijff for extensive comments on our work.

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  1. Saarland University, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Elena Karagjosova & Ivana Kruijff-Korbayová

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  1. Faculty of Informatics Department of Programming Systems and Communication, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

    Petr Sojka

  2. Faculty of Informatics Department of Information Technologies, Masaryk University, Botanická 68a, 602 00, Brno, Czech Republic

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Karagjosova, E., Kruijff-Korbayová, I. (2002). An Analysis of Conditional Responses in Dialogue. In: Sojka, P., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2448. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46154-X_43

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