The Use of Knowledge Preconditions in Language Processing

dc.creatorLochbaum, Karen E.
dc.date1995-08-29
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T09:09:59Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T09:09:59Z
dc.descriptionIf an agent does not possess the knowledge needed to perform an action, it may privately plan to obtain the required information on its own, or it may involve another agent in the planning process by engaging it in a dialogue. In this paper, we show how the requirements of knowledge preconditions can be used to account for information-seeking subdialogues in discourse. We first present an axiomatization of knowledge preconditions for the SharedPlan model of collaborative activity (Grosz & Kraus, 1993), and then provide an analysis of information-seeking subdialogues within a general framework for discourse processing. In this framework, SharedPlans and relationships among them are used to model the intentional component of Grosz and Sidner's (1986) theory of discourse structure.
dc.description7 pages, LaTeX, uses ijcai95.sty, postscript figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9508011
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/cmp-lg/9508011
dc.identifierProceedings of IJCAI-95
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/151232
dc.subjectComputation and Language
dc.titleThe Use of Knowledge Preconditions in Language Processing
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