Less is more: using Grice's maxim of quantity to generate instructional text
R. Michael Young · 2002
Plans produced by AI planning systems have the potential to serve as the underlying action representation for systems that generate instructional texts. However, there is more detail in even the simplest, of plan data structures than there is in a typical plan description used by people. This paper describes an operational definition of Grice's (1975) maxim of quantity that guides the selection of appropriate amounts of detail to appear in a textual description of a plan.