@conference {853,
	title = {A computational account of comparative implicatures for a spoken dialogue agent.},
	booktitle = {Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8)},
	year = {2009},
	month = {January 2009},
	address = {Tilburg, The Netherlands},
	abstract = {Comparative constructions are common in dialogue, especially in negotiative dialogue where a choice must be made between different options, and options must be evaluated using multiple metrics. Comparatives explicitly assert a relationship between two elements along a scale, but they may also implicate positions on the scale especially if constraints on the possible values are present. Dialogue systems must often understand more from a comparative than the explicit assertion in order to understand why the comparative was uttered. In this paper
we examine the pragmatic meaning of comparative constructions from a computational perspective. },
	url = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-3704.pdf},
	author = {Luciana Benotti and David R. Traum}
}
