Abstract
In this paper we discuss the phenomenon of grounding in dialogue using a context-change approach to the interpretation of dialogue utterances. We formulate an empirically motivated principle for the strengthening of weak mutual beliefs, and show that with this principle, the building of common ground in dialogue can be explained through ordinary mechanisms of understanding and cooperation.
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
Bunt, H.: Dialogue pragmatics and context speci.cation. In: Bunt, H., Black, W., (eds.) Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue. Benjamins, Amsterdam, pp. 81–150 (2000)
Clark, H.: Using Language. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (1996)
Colombetti, M.: Formal semantics for mutual belief. Arfti.cial Intelligence 62, 341–353 (1993)
Clark, H., Schaefer, E.: Contributing to discourse. Cognitive Science 13, 259–294 (1989)
Brennan, S.: The grounding problem in conversations with and through computers. In: Fussell, S., Kreuz, R. (eds.) Social and cognitive psychological approaches to interpersonal communication, pp. 201–225. Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ (1998)
Cahn, J., Brennan, S.E.: A psychological model of grounding and repair in dialog. In: Cahn, J. (ed.) Proc. AAAI FAll Symposium on Psychological Models of Communication in Collaborative Systems, pp. 25–33. AAAI, North Falmouth, MA (1999)
Paek, T., Horvitz, E.: Toward a formal theory of grounding. Technical report MSR–TR–2000–40. Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA (2000)
Traum, D.: A Computational Theory of Grounding in Natural Language Conversation. PhD Thesis. Dep. of Computer Science, University of Rochester (1994)
Matheson, C., Poesio, M., Traum, D.: Modelling grounding and discourse obligations using update rules. In: Proceedings NAACL (2000)
Allen, J., Perrault, C.: Analyzing intention in dialogues. Artificial Intelligence 15(3), 143–178 (1980)
Bunt, H., Morante, R., Keizer, S.: An emprically based computational model of grounding in dialogue (submitted, 2007)
Searle, J.: Speech acts. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK (1969)
Geertzen, J., Girard, Y., Morante, R.: The diamond project. In: Proc. 8th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (CATALOG), Barcelona (2004)
OVIS: Dialogue corpus, http://www.let.rug.nl/vannoord/Ovis/
Morante, R.: Computing meaning in interaction. PhD Thesis (2007) (forthcoming)
Keizer, S., Morante, R.: Dialogue simulation and context dynamics for dialogue management. In: Proc. NODALIDA Conference, Tartu, Estonia (2007)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2007 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Bunt, H., Morante, R. (2007). The Weakest Link. In: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (eds) Text, Speech and Dialogue. TSD 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4629. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_76
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74628-7_76
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-74627-0
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-74628-7
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)