The Need for Referent Identification as a Planned Action
Abstract
The paper presents evidence that speakers often attempt to get hearers to identify referents as a separate step in the speaker's plan. Many of the communicative acts performed in service of such referent identification steps can be analyzed by extending a plan-based theory of communication for task-oriented dialogues to include an action representing a hearer's identifying the referent of a description -- an action that is reasoned about in speakers' and hearers' plans. The phenomenon of addressing referent identification as a separate goal is shown to distinguish telephone from teletype task-oriented dialogues and thus has implications for the design of speech-understanding systems.
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Cohen. "The Need for Referent Identification as a Planned Action." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1981.Markdown
[Cohen. "The Need for Referent Identification as a Planned Action." International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1981.](https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1981/cohen1981ijcai-need/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{cohen1981ijcai-need,
title = {{The Need for Referent Identification as a Planned Action}},
author = {Cohen, Philip R.},
booktitle = {International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1981},
pages = {31-36},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/ijcai/1981/cohen1981ijcai-need/}
}