Towards a Dynamic Theory of Belief-Sharing in Cooperative Dialogues
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چکیده
In this paper, we propose a dynamic theory of beliefsharing which dens with certain processes of forming and revising shared beliefs during cooperative dialogues. Since Clark & MarshNl(1981) the problem of determination of the referents of referring expressions has been discussed in relation to mutual knowledge. In natural language processing, there haw~ also been several studies treating this problem of referent-determination in terms of mutuN knowledge (Perrault &: Cohen, 1981; Joshi, 1982; Nadathur & Joshi, 1983; Appelt, 1985). In this paper, we conceive referent-determination as a process of belicfsllaring in dialogues, and propose a formal theory of dialogue in which referent-determination can be characterized as part of belief-sharing processes. We use Discourse Representation Theory (DRT) to model the characteristics of referents in discourse (Kamp, 1981, 1990; Asher, 1993), and propose a model of dynamic maintenance of the mutual beliefs of tile participants in diNogues based on Clause Maintenance System (CMS) (Doyle, 1979; Levesquc, 1989; Poole, 1988; Reggia, 1983; de Kleer, 1986; Rciter & de Kleer, 1987). By this nmdel, we characterize the relationships between a diMogue process and its successfulness, which is mainly illustrated by examples of referent-determination but can be applied to any type of belief-sharing.
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