Social Goals in Conversational Cooperation
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چکیده
We propose a model where dialog obligations arise from the interplay of social goals and intentions of the participants: when an agent is addressed with a request, the agent's decision to commit to the requester's linguistic and domain goals is motivated by a trade-o between the preference for preventing a negative reaction of the requester and the cost of the actions needed to satisfy the goals.
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