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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cohen, Philip R.

Morgan, Jerry L.

Pollack, Martha E.

Series:

Systems Development Foundation benchmark series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Communication.

Intention.

Speech acts (Linguistics).

Pragmatics.

Discourse analysis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 508 p. ) ill. ;

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1990.

Language Note:

English

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.

Contents:

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.

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.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"A Bradford book."

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-585-36369-2

OCLC:

47009732