Managing implicit assumptions in natural language interfaces
Dustin Smith · 2012
A person's choice of what to communicate and how to communicate it depends on the information he or she believes is shared with the audience. This presents a challenge for natural language interfaces, because it is hard for people to predict what information they share with the interface and how it will use this information to interpret their text. This is especially difficult for pragmatic-level assumptions supplied by the interpreter that go beyond the information in the surface text, because these assumptions are negotiated in dialogue and frequently revised or redacted.