In this paper we define the concept of conversation policies: declarative specifications that govern communications between software agents using an agent communication language. ...
Previous work suggests that reminding a conversational partner of mutually known information depends on the conversants' attentional state, their resource limits and the reso...
To enable conversational QA, it is important to examine key issues addressed in conversational systems in the context of question answering. In conversational systems, understandi...
This paper describes our preliminary analysis on the induction of communication protocols. Our work has two goals: (i) to recognize rules (i.e. protocols) from the communicative b...
In this paper, we present a social model for software agent conversations for action based on social commitments and their negotiation. We depart from the premises that conversati...