Towards an Analysis of Dialogue Acts and Indirect Speech Acts in a BDI Framework

Andreas Herzig (1, 2) , Dominique Longin (1, 2) , Jacques Virbel (3)

1 IRIT-LILaC - Logique, Interaction, Langue et Calcul
2 CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
3 IRIT-MELODI - MEthodes et ingénierie des Langues, des Ontologies et du DIscours

We study the dynamics of belief in cooperative task-oriented man-machine dialogues. We introduce a modal logic of action, belief and intention, where intention has a non-normal modal logic. We focus on two aspects of speech acts: we define a semantics to take into account a feedback from the adressee of a speech act; we characterize indirect speech acts.

Mots clés: Modal logics; Indirect speech acts

Domaines: Intelligence artificielle [cs.AI]; Logique en informatique [cs.LO]

Andreas Herzig, Dominique Longin, Jacques Virbel. Towards an Analysis of Dialogue Acts and Indirect Speech Acts in a BDI Framework. 4h International Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Götalog'2000), Feb 2000, Goteborg, Sweden. ⟨hal-03523411⟩