Dialogue Acts as Context Operators Constraining the Generation of Dialogical Discourse
Simon Keizer, Roser Morante · Research portal (Tilburg University) · 2006
A model of dialogical discourse is presented that uses the notion of dialogue acts operating on the information state of the dialogue participants. The model shows that the generation of dialogue acts, and therefore, the continuation of the discourse, is constrained by properties of the information state of the participant that has the turn. Based on a dialogue modelling approach in terms of dialogue acts as developed in Dynamic Interpretation Theory (DIT), our work expands on context specification and mechanisms for context updating and dialogue act generation during a dialogue.