Publication
Communicating with Multiple Agents
Elizabeth Hinkelman; Stephen P. Spackman
In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING-94), 15th, August 5-9, Kyoto, Japan, Pages 1191-1197, Vol. 2, ACM, 1994.
Abstract
Previous dialogue systems have focussed on dialogues between two agents. Many applications, however, require conversations between several participants. This paper extends speech act definitions to handle multi-agent conversations, based on a model of multi-agent belief attribution with some unique properties. Our approach has the advantage of capturing a number of interesting phenomena in a straightforward way.