Experimentally Evaluating Communicative Strategies: The Effect of the Task
<|reference_start|>Experimentally Evaluating Communicative Strategies: The Effect of the Task: Effective problem solving among multiple agents requires a better understanding of the role of communication in collaboration. In this paper we show that there are communicative strategies that greatly improve the performance of resource-bounded agents, but that these strategies are highly sensitive to the task requirements, situation parameters and agents' resource limitations. We base our argument on two sources of evidence: (1) an analysis of a corpus of 55 problem solving dialogues, and (2) experimental simulations of collaborative problem solving dialogues in an experimental world, Design-World, where we parameterize task requirements, agents' resources and communicative strategies.<|reference_end|>
@article{walker1994experimentally,
    title={Experimentally Evaluating Communicative Strategies: The Effect of the
  Task},
    author={Marilyn A. Walker (Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories,
  Cambridge, Mass.)},
    journal={Proceedings of AAAI 94, Seattle},
    year={1994},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9408015},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}