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Belief reconstruction in cooperative dialogues

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Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications (AIMSA 1998)

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We investigate belief change in the context of man-machine dialogue. We start from Perrault's approach to speech act theory [12], which proposes on default mechanisms for the reconstruction of the agents' beliefs. Then we review Sadek's [16] critiques and introduce his approach. We point out some shortcomings and present a new framework for the reconstruction of beliefs which contrarily to Perrault's and Sadek's is monotonic. We focus on a particular application, viz. cooperative man-machine dialogues. Our basic notion is that of a topic: we suppose that we can associate a set of topics to every agent, speech act and formula. This allows to speak about the competence of an agent, and the preservation of beliefs. We give an axiomatics and a possible worlds semantics, and we show how the belief state of an agent can be reconstructed after a speech act.

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  1. Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse, 118 Route de Narbonne, F-31062, Toulouse Cedex 4, France

    Luis Fariñas del Cerro, Andreas Herzig, Dominique Longin & Omar Rifi

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del Cerro, L.F., Herzig, A., Longin, D., Rifi, O. (1998). Belief reconstruction in cooperative dialogues. In: Giunchiglia, F. (eds) Artificial Intelligence: Methodology, Systems, and Applications. AIMSA 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1480. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0057450

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