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Integration of new utterances into context is a central task in any model for rational (human-machine) dialogues in natural language. In this paper, a pragmatics-first approach to specifying the meaning of utterances in terms of plans is presented. These plans are computed during a dialogue on the basis of information about the current situation that is updated continually. New contributions are integrated into a dialogue if they help in establishing a new plan, or if they deliver important information for executing an already established plan.
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Ludwig, B. (2004). A Pragmatics-First Approach to the Analysis and Generation of Dialogues. In: Biundo, S., Frühwirth, T., Palm, G. (eds) KI 2004: Advances in Artificial Intelligence. KI 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3238. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-30221-6_8
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