Title | A computational account of comparative implicatures for a spoken dialogue agent. |
Publication Type | Conference Paper |
Year of Publication | 2009 |
Authors | Benotti, L., and D. R. Traum |
Conference Name | Eighth International Conference on Computational Semantics (IWCS-8) |
Date Published | January 2009 |
Conference Location | 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 |
URL | http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W/W09/W09-3704.pdf |