Commitments to Preferences in Dialogue

Women’s Experiences and Preferences in Relation to Infertility Counselling: A Multifaith Dialogue

Dynamics of Public Commitments in Dialogue

In this paper, we present a dynamic semantics for dialogue in terms of commitments. We use this to provide a model theoretic treatment of ambiguity and its effects on the evolutions of commitments as a dialogue proceeds. Our first semantics ensures common commitments and has a simple logic for which we provide a complete axiomatization. On the other hand, our semantics poses difficulties for th...

Grounding and Correcting Commitments in Dialogue

This paper provides a logically precise analysis of grounding and disputes in dialogue. The semantics distinguishes among the public commitments of each dialogue participant, including commitments to relational speech acts or rhetorical relations (e.g., Narration, Explanation, Acknowledgement). Thus commitments to the illocutionary contribution of an utterance as well as to its compositional se...

ACL: Specification, Design and Analysis All Based on Commitments

In recent years, social commitment based approaches have been proposed to solve problems issuing from previous mentalistic based semantics for agent communication languages. This paper follows the same line of thought since it presents a dialogue game based agent communication language (called DIAGAL) which allows agents to manipulate the public layer of social commitments through dialogue, by ...

Agreement, Disputes and Commitments in Dialogue

This paper provides a logically precise analysis of agreement and disputes in dialogue. The semantics distinguishes among the public commitments of each dialogue agent, including commitments to relational speech acts or rhetorical relations (e.g., Narration, Explanation, Correction). Agreement is defined to be the shared entailments of the agents’ public commitments. We show that this makes pre...