Publication
Abductive Reasoning for Continual Dialogue Understanding
Miroslav Janicek
In: Daniel Lassiter; Marija Slavkovik (Hrsg.). New Directions in Logic, Language and Computation. Pages 16-31, ISBN 978-3-642-31466-7, Springer, 2012.
Abstract
In this paper we present a continual context-sensitive abductive framework for understanding situated spoken natural dialogue. The framework builds up and refines a set of partial defeasible explanations of the spoken input, trying to infer the speaker’s intention. These partial explanations are conditioned on the eventual verification of the knowledge gaps they contain. This verification is done by executing test actions, thereby going beyond the initial context. The approach is illustrated by an example set in the context of human-robot interaction.