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Computer Science @ Rochester
Friday, February 16, 2007
12:30 PM
CSB 703
Rajah Subramanian
University of Rochester
A Joint Intention Based Dialog Engine
In this talk we present some of the advantages of using a joint intention-based interpreter for building multi-agent, agent-human comunication systems. We describe STAPLE, a joint-intention interpreter that enables a system to obtain team and communicative behavior automatically without having to program this behavior explicitly. With this approach there is no necessity for a programmer to indicate when a question should be posed, when information should be shared etc. The interpreter enables the agents to exhibit team-oriented dialogue by interpreting the constructs of Joint Intention Theory (JIT) along with first principles reasoning over a formal semantics of communicative acts. In particular, we show how STAPLE can handle over-answering, dynamic environment changes and teamwork in a general domain independent manner.