{"pk":33015,"title":"Towards a Principled Representation of Discourse Plans","subtitle":null,"abstract":"We argue that discourse plans must capture the intended causal and decompositional relations between communicative actions. W e present a planning algorithm, DPOCL , that builds plan structures that property capture these relations, and show how these structures are used to solve the problems that plagued previous discourse planners, and allow a system to participate effectively and flexibly in an ongoing dialogue.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Refereed Papers","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/7f15h333","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"R.","middle_name":"Michael","last_name":"Young","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pittsburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Johanna","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Moore","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pittsburgh","department":""},{"first_name":"Martha","middle_name":"E.","last_name":"Pollack","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of Pittsburgh","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1994-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/33015/galley/24076/download/"}]}