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Intentions in communication / edited by Philip R. Cohen, Jerry Morgan, and Martha E. Pollack.

Contributor(s): Cohen, Philip R | Morgan, Jerry L | Pollack, Martha E | IEEE Xplore (Online Service) [distributor.] | MIT Press [publisher.].
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, c1990Distributor: [Piscataqay, New Jersey] : IEEE Xplore, [2003]Description: 1 PDF (x, 508 pages) : illustrations.Content type: text Media type: electronic Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780262270540.Subject(s): Discourse analysis | Pragmatics | Speech acts (Linguistics) | Intention | Communication | LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication StudiesGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version: No titleOnline resources: Abstract with links to resource Also available in print.
Contents:
Collective intentions and actions / John R. Searle -- Plans for discourse / Barbara J. Grosz and Candace L. Sidner -- Artificial intelligence and collective intentionality : comments on Searle and on Grosz and Sidner / Jerry R. Hobbs -- A reply to Hobbs / Barbara J. Grosz and Candace L. Sidner -- Referring as a collaborative process / Herbert H. Clark and Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs.
Rational interaction as the basis for communication / Philip R. Cohen and Hector J. Levesque -- Comments on Vanderveken and on Cohen and Levesque / Jerrold M. Sadock -- The meaning of intonational contours in the interpretation of discourse / Janet Pierrehumbert and Julia Hirschberg -- The Pierrehumbert-Hirschberg theory of intonational meaning made simple : comments on Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg / Jerry R. Hobbs -- Accommodation, meaning, and implicature : interdisciplinary foundations for pragmatics / Richmond H. Thomason -- Discourse processing and commonsense plans / Diane J. Litman and James F. Allen -- Communicative intentions, plan recognition, and pragmatics : comments on Thomason and on Litman and Allen / Kent Bach.
Introduction / Philip R. Cohen, Jerry Morgan, and Martha E. Pollack -- What is intention? / Michael E. Bratman -- Persistence, intention, and commitment / Philip R. Cohen and Hector J. Levesque -- Two views of intention : comments on Bratman and on Cohen and Levesque / James F. Allen -- Plans as complex mental attitudes / Martha E. Pollack -- A circumscriptive theory of plan recognition / Henry Kautz -- On plans and plan recognition : comments on Pollack and on Kautz / W.A. Woods -- Toward a formal theory of communication and speech acts / Andrew J.I. Jones -- An application of default logic to speech act theory / C. Raymond Perrault -- Comments on Jones and on Perrault / Jerry Morgan -- On the unification of speech act theory and formal semantics / Daniel Vanderveken.
Summary: Intentions in Communication brings together major theorists from artificial intelligence and computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology whose work develops the foundations for an account of the role of intentions in a comprehensive theory of communication. It demonstrates, for the first time, the emerging cooperation among disciplines concerned with the fundamental role of intention in communication.The fourteen contributions in this book address central questions about the nature of intention as it is understood in theories of communication, the crucial role of intention recognition in understanding utterances, the use of principles of rational interaction in interpreting speech acts, the contribution of intonation contours to intention recognition, and the need for more general models of intention that support a view of dialogue as a collaborative activity.The contributors are Michael E. Bratman, Philip R. Cohen, Hector J. Levesque, Martha E. Pollack, Henry Kautz, Andrew J. I. Jones, C. Raymond Perrault, Daniel Vanderveken, Janet Pierrehumbert, Julia Hirschberg, Richmond H. Thomason, Diane J Litman, James F. Allen, John R. Searle, Barbara J. Grosz, Candace L. Sidner, Herbert H. Clark and Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs. The book also includes commentaries by James F. Allen, W. A Woods, Jerry Morgan, Jerrold M. Sadock Jerry R. Hobbs, and Kent Bach.Philip R. Cohen is a Senior Computer Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International and is a Senior Researcher with the Center for the Study of Language and Information; Jerry Morgan is Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois; Martha E. Pollack is a Computer Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International and is a Senior Researcher with the Center for the Study of Language and Information. Intentions in Communication is included in the System Development Foundation Benchmark Series.
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Collective intentions and actions / John R. Searle -- Plans for discourse / Barbara J. Grosz and Candace L. Sidner -- Artificial intelligence and collective intentionality : comments on Searle and on Grosz and Sidner / Jerry R. Hobbs -- A reply to Hobbs / Barbara J. Grosz and Candace L. Sidner -- Referring as a collaborative process / Herbert H. Clark and Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs.

Rational interaction as the basis for communication / Philip R. Cohen and Hector J. Levesque -- Comments on Vanderveken and on Cohen and Levesque / Jerrold M. Sadock -- The meaning of intonational contours in the interpretation of discourse / Janet Pierrehumbert and Julia Hirschberg -- The Pierrehumbert-Hirschberg theory of intonational meaning made simple : comments on Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg / Jerry R. Hobbs -- Accommodation, meaning, and implicature : interdisciplinary foundations for pragmatics / Richmond H. Thomason -- Discourse processing and commonsense plans / Diane J. Litman and James F. Allen -- Communicative intentions, plan recognition, and pragmatics : comments on Thomason and on Litman and Allen / Kent Bach.

Introduction / Philip R. Cohen, Jerry Morgan, and Martha E. Pollack -- What is intention? / Michael E. Bratman -- Persistence, intention, and commitment / Philip R. Cohen and Hector J. Levesque -- Two views of intention : comments on Bratman and on Cohen and Levesque / James F. Allen -- Plans as complex mental attitudes / Martha E. Pollack -- A circumscriptive theory of plan recognition / Henry Kautz -- On plans and plan recognition : comments on Pollack and on Kautz / W.A. Woods -- Toward a formal theory of communication and speech acts / Andrew J.I. Jones -- An application of default logic to speech act theory / C. Raymond Perrault -- Comments on Jones and on Perrault / Jerry Morgan -- On the unification of speech act theory and formal semantics / Daniel Vanderveken.

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Intentions in Communication brings together major theorists from artificial intelligence and computer science, linguistics, philosophy, and psychology whose work develops the foundations for an account of the role of intentions in a comprehensive theory of communication. It demonstrates, for the first time, the emerging cooperation among disciplines concerned with the fundamental role of intention in communication.The fourteen contributions in this book address central questions about the nature of intention as it is understood in theories of communication, the crucial role of intention recognition in understanding utterances, the use of principles of rational interaction in interpreting speech acts, the contribution of intonation contours to intention recognition, and the need for more general models of intention that support a view of dialogue as a collaborative activity.The contributors are Michael E. Bratman, Philip R. Cohen, Hector J. Levesque, Martha E. Pollack, Henry Kautz, Andrew J. I. Jones, C. Raymond Perrault, Daniel Vanderveken, Janet Pierrehumbert, Julia Hirschberg, Richmond H. Thomason, Diane J Litman, James F. Allen, John R. Searle, Barbara J. Grosz, Candace L. Sidner, Herbert H. Clark and Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs. The book also includes commentaries by James F. Allen, W. A Woods, Jerry Morgan, Jerrold M. Sadock Jerry R. Hobbs, and Kent Bach.Philip R. Cohen is a Senior Computer Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International and is a Senior Researcher with the Center for the Study of Language and Information; Jerry Morgan is Associate Professor, Department of Linguistics and Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois; Martha E. Pollack is a Computer Scientist at the Artificial Intelligence Center at SRI International and is a Senior Researcher with the Center for the Study of Language and Information. Intentions in Communication is included in the System Development Foundation Benchmark Series.

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