Task Context Dependency of Explanation Strategy in Instruction Dialogue

Issei Nakano, Tsuneaki Kato · 1995

When an expert explains some operation to a novice, different explanation strategies are used for first time explanation, review explanation, and re-explanation for recovery from communication failure. In this pa-per, first by analyzing dialogue instruction dialogue corpus, we reveal how task context as well as discourse context determines tile experts ’ explanation strategy, then, based on the empirical results, we also intro-duce a m(’chanism for selecting the most appropriate utterance content and dialogue control strategy for an instruction dialogue.

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