{"pk":30814,"title":"Expectation Verification: A Mechanism for the Generation of Meta Comments","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Meta Comments, such as \"however,\" \"as I have stated before\" and \"if you pardon the expression,\" are pervasive in human discourse. In this paper, we present a predictive mechanism for the generation of Meta Comments based on the tenet that they signal a change in the status of beliefs and expectations a listener is conjectured to possess. In particular, our mechanism anticipates a listener's expectations by activating prescribed inferences on the state of the discourse. It is being implemented in a system called FIGMENT II which generates commentaries on the solution of algebraic equations.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Paper Presentations","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/92z2h0h0","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ingrid","middle_name":"","last_name":"Zukerman","name_suffix":"","institution":"Monash University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1989-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30814/galley/20663/download/"}]}