Representing Communicative Intentions in Collaborative Conversational Agents

AAAI Fall Symposium - Technical Report

Volumn FS-01-05, Issue , 2001, Pages 58-65

  Stone, Matthew ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

CONVERSATIONAL AGENTS; NATURAL LANGUAGE DIALOGUE; REAL-WORLD; SIMPLE++;

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