Planning English Sentences

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Effective communication depends on the speaker's ability to reason in detail about what the hearer knows and wants. Douglas Appelt's investigation of the problems this poses for the machine-based generation of language is thus an ambitious and significant contribution to research on language generation in artificial intelligence, which has previously concentrated in the main on the problem of translation from an internal semantic representation into the target language.
Dr Appelt's approach, based on a possible-worlds semantics of an intensional logic of knowledge and action, enables him to develop a formal representation of the effects of illocutionary acts and the speaker's beliefs about the hearer's knowledge of the world. The techniques by which this representation can be effectively used by a planning system are also described. The language planning theory and knowledge representation system have been embodied in a computer system called KAMP (Knowledge And Modalities... Tovább

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Effective communication depends on the speaker's ability to reason in detail about what the hearer knows and wants. Douglas Appelt's investigation of the problems this poses for the machine-based generation of language is thus an ambitious and significant contribution to research on language generation in artificial intelligence, which has previously concentrated in the main on the problem of translation from an internal semantic representation into the target language.
Dr Appelt's approach, based on a possible-worlds semantics of an intensional logic of knowledge and action, enables him to develop a formal representation of the effects of illocutionary acts and the speaker's beliefs about the hearer's knowledge of the world. The techniques by which this representation can be effectively used by a planning system are also described. The language planning theory and knowledge representation system have been embodied in a computer system called KAMP (Knowledge And Modalities Planner), which, given a high-level description of the speaker's goals, plans linguistic and non-linguistic actions.
Planning English sentences thus not only advances our knowledge of why and how communication happens as it does in a task-related situation, but also has important applications to the design of interactive computer systems, multiagent planning systems, and the planning of knowledge acquisition, as well as indicating important new avenues of research. Vissza