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Social goals in conversational cooperation

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Rossana Damiano,

Leonardo LesmoAuthors Info & Claims

SIGDIAL '00: Proceedings of the 1st SIGdial workshop on Discourse and dialogue - Volume 10

Pages 84 - 93

https://doi.org/10.3115/1117736.1117746

Published: 07 October 2000 Publication History

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We propose a model where dialog obligations arise from the interplay of social goals and intentions of the participants: when an agent is addressed with a request, the agent's decision to commit to the requester's linguistic and domain goals is motivated by a trade-off between the preference for preventing a negative reaction of the requester and the cost of the actions needed to satisfy the goals.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2392747.2392776

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SIGDIAL '00: Proceedings of the 1st SIGdial workshop on Discourse and dialogue - Volume 10

October 2000

178 pages

Editors:
Laila Dybkjær
Natural Interactive Systems Laboratory, Denmark
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Koiti Hasida
Sony Computer Science Laboratory, Japan
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David Tram
University of Maryland, USA

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Bracewell DTomlinson MBrunson MPlymale JBracewell JBoerger aIde NXia F(2012)Annotation of adversarial and collegial social actions in discourseProceedings of the Sixth Linguistic Annotation Workshop10.5555/2392747.2392776(184-192)Online publication date: 12-Jul-2012
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/2392747.2392776

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