Towards a Principled Representation of Discourse Plans
R. Michael Young, Johanna D. Moore, Martha E. Pollack · arXiv (Cornell University) · 1994
We argue that discourse plans must capture the intended causal and decompositional relations between communicative actions. We present a planning algorithm, DPOCL, that builds plan structures that properly capture these relations, and show how these structures are used to solve the problems that plagued previous discourse planners, and allow a system to participate effectively and flexibly in an ongoing dialogue.