Goal-oriented Dialog as a Collaborative Subordinated Activity involving Collective Acceptance

Sylvie Saget (1) , Marc Guyomard (1)

1 CORDIAL - Human-machine spoken dialogue

Modeling dialog as a collaborative activity consists notably in specifying the content of the Conversational Common Ground and the kind of social mental state involved. In previous work (Saget, 2006), we claim that Collective Acceptance is the proper social attitude for modeling Conversational Common Ground in the particular case of goal-oriented dialog. In this paper, a formalization of Collective Acceptance is shown, besides elements in order to integrate this attitude in a rational model of dialog are provided; and finally, a model of referential acts as being part of a collaborative activity is presented. The particular case of reference has been chosen in order to exemplify our claims.

Mots clés: grounding; dialog modeling; common ground; social epistemic attitude; belief; acceptance

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Linguistique; Sciences de l'information et de la communication; Linguistique; Informatique; Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Sylvie Saget, Marc Guyomard. Goal-oriented Dialog as a Collaborative Subordinated Activity involving Collective Acceptance. 10th Workshop on the Semantics and the Pragmatics of Dialogue (Brandial 2006), 2006, Potsdam, Germany. pp.131-138. ⟨hal-00282131⟩