Risk-taking and recovery in task-oriented dialogue

The Principle of Parsimony states that by and large, agents try to complete tasks using as little effort as possible. This thesis demonstrates that the Principle of Parsimony operates in human task-oriented dialogue by showing the effects of Parsimony in a corpus of human dialogues about a map navig...

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Main Author: Carletta, Jean
Published: University of Edinburgh 1992
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.642593