Conversational Adequacy: Mistakes are the Essence
| dc.contributor.author | Perlis, Don | en_US |
| dc.contributor.author | Purang, Khemdut | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2004-05-31T22:39:41Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2004-05-31T22:39:41Z | |
| dc.date.created | 1996-06 | en_US |
| dc.date.issued | 1998-10-15 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | We argue that meta-dialog and meta-reasoning, far from being of only occasional use, are the very essence of conversation and communication between agents. We give four paradigm examples of massive use of meta-dialog where only limited base dialog may be present, and use these to bolster our claim of centrality for meta-dialog. We further illustrate this with related work in active logics. We argue moreover that there may be a core set of meta-dialog principles that is in some sense complete. If we are right, then implementing such a set would be of considerable interest. We give examples of existing computer programs that converse inadequately according to our guidelines. (Also cross-referenced as UMIACS-TR-96-41) | en_US |
| dc.format.extent | 162137 bytes | |
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| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1903/824 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Digital Repository at the University of Maryland | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | University of Maryland (College Park, Md.) | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | Tech Reports in Computer Science and Engineering | en_US |
| dc.relation.isAvailableAt | UMIACS Technical Reports | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | UM Computer Science Department; CS-TR-3654 | en_US |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | UMIACS; UMIACS-TR-96-41 | en_US |
| dc.title | Conversational Adequacy: Mistakes are the Essence | en_US |
| dc.type | Technical Report | en_US |