2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/150990We argue that discourse plans must capture the intended causal and decompositional relations between communicative actions. We present a planning algorithm, DPOCL, that builds plan structures that properly capture these relations, and show how these structures are used to solve the problems that plagued previous discourse planners, and allow a system to participate effectively and flexibly in an ongoing dialogue.requires cogsci94.sty, psfig.styComputation and Languagetext