Abstract
This paper introduces a new approach to designing a Message Handling Assistant (MA). It provides a generic model of an MA and an intention extraction function for text messages using speech act theory and the belief-desire-intention (BDI) model of rational agency. The model characterizes the desired behaviors of an MA and the relationships between the MA, its user, and other human agents with whom the user interacts through message exchange. The intention extraction function formulates intentions from performatives identified by a probabilistic dialogue act classifier using constraints for felicitous human communication. This paper also proposes a semantic communication framework which integrates key agent and Internet technologies for composing and exchanging semantic messages.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Russell, S., Norvig, P.: Artificial Intelligence a Modern Approach. AI. Prentice Hall, Englewood Cliffs (2003)
Maes, P.: Agents that reduce work and information overload. Communications of the ACM 37, 30–40 (1994)
Segal, R., Kephart, J.O.: Mailcat: An intelligent assistant for organizing e-mail. In: International Conference on Autonomous Agents, pp. 276–282 (1999)
Bergman, R., Griss, M., Staelin, C.: A personal email assistant. Technical Report HPL-2002-236, Hewlett Packard Laboratories (2002)
Singh, M.P.: A semantics for speech acts. In: Readings in Agents, pp. 458–470. Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco (1997); Reprinted from Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence (1993)
Cohen, P.R., Levesque, H.J.: Performatives in a rationally based speech act theory. In: Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 79– 88 (1990)
Cohen, P.R., Levesque, H.J.: Rational interaction as the basis for communication. In: Intentions in Communication, pp. 221–255. MIT Press, Cambridge (1990)
Cohen, P.R., Levesque, H.J.: Communicative actions for artificial agents. In: Proc. the First International Conference on Multi-Agent Systems (ICMAS 1995), San Francisco, CA, USA, pp. 65–72. The MIT Press, Cambridge (1995)
Wooldridge, M.: Reasoning about Rational Agents. The MIT Press, Cambridge (2000)
Rao, A.S., Georgeff, M.P.: Decision procedures for BDI logics. Journal of Logic and Computation 8, 293–343 (1998)
Cohen, P.R., Levesque, H.J.: Intention is choice with commitment. Artificial Intelligence, AI 42, 213–261 (1990)
Huhns, M.N., Stephens, L.M.: Multiagent systems and societies of agents. In: Multiagent Systems: A Modern Approach to Distributed Artificial Intelligence, pp. 79–120. The MIT Press, Cambridge (1999)
van der Hoek, W., Wooldridge, M.: Towards a logic of rational agency. Logic Journal of the IGPL 11, 135–159 (2003)
d’Inverno, M., Luck, M.: Understanding Agent Systems. Springer Series on Agent Technology. Springer, Berlin (2001)
Bratman, M.E.: Intentions, Plans, and Practical Reason. Harvard University Press, Cambridge (1987)
Reithinger, N., Klesen, M.: Dialogue act classification using language models. In: Proc. Eurospeech 1997, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 2235–2238 (1997)
Wang, Y.Y., Waibel, A.: Statistical analysis of dialogue structure. In: Proc. Eurospeech 1997, Rhodes, Greece, pp. 2703–2706 (1997)
Garner, P., Browning, S., Moore, R., Russell, M.: A theory of word frequencies and its application to dialogue move recognition. In: Proc. ICSLP 1996, Philadelphia, PA, vol. 3, pp. 1880–1883 (1996)
Toshiaki, F., Koll, D., Waibel, A.: Probabilistic dialogue act extraction for concept based multilingual translation systems. In: Proc. ICSLP 1998, Sydney, Australia, vol. 6, pp. 2771–2774 (1998)
Dieter Fensel, M.A.M.: The semantic web: a brain for humankind. Intelligent Systems. IEEE [see also IEEE Expert] 16, 24–25 (2001)
Hendler, J.: Agents and the semantic web. IEEE Intelligent Systems Journal 16 (2001)
Petrie, C.J.: Agent-based software engineering. In: Proc. 5th International Conference on the Practical Application of Intelligent Agents and Multi-Agent Technology (PAAM 2000), Manchester, UK, The Practical Application (2000)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2003 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Song, I., Piggott, P. (2003). Modelling Message Handling System. In: Gedeon, T.(.D., Fung, L.C.C. (eds) AI 2003: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. AI 2003. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 2903. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24581-0_5
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-24581-0_5
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-20646-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-24581-0
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive