Generating Information-Sharing Subdialogues in Expert-User Consultation
<|reference_start|>Generating Information-Sharing Subdialogues in Expert-User Consultation: In expert-consultation dialogues, it is inevitable that an agent will at times have insufficient information to determine whether to accept or reject a proposal by the other agent. This results in the need for the agent to initiate an information-sharing subdialogue to form a set of shared beliefs within which the agents can effectively re-evaluate the proposal. This paper presents a computational strategy for initiating such information-sharing subdialogues to resolve the system's uncertainty regarding the acceptance of a user proposal. Our model determines when information-sharing should be pursued, selects a focus of information-sharing among multiple uncertain beliefs, chooses the most effective information-sharing strategy, and utilizes the newly obtained information to re-evaluate the user proposal. Furthermore, our model is capable of handling embedded information-sharing subdialogues.<|reference_end|>
@article{chu-carroll1997generating,
    title={Generating Information-Sharing Subdialogues in Expert-User Consultation},
    author={Jennifer Chu-Carroll (Bell Laboratories) and Sandra Carberry
  (University of Delaware)},
    journal={IJCAI'95},
    year={1997},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={cmp-lg/9701003},
    primaryClass={cmp-lg cs.CL}
}