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Dialogue management for co-operative knowledge based systems

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  • Abstract: This review presents a brief survey of approaches to describing dialogues with computers which are relevant to improving communication between users and knowledge based systems. One approach to achieving improvements is to exploit the conventions of human communication. The review draws together some of the work on co-operative behavour which reflects these conventions. An analysis is presented which goes some way towards identifying the knowledge required and the issues to be tackled.
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    S. P. Stenton. 1987. Dialogue management for co-operative knowledge based systems. The Knowledge Engineering Review. 2:1 doi: 10.1017/S0269888900000801
    S. P. Stenton. 1987. Dialogue management for co-operative knowledge based systems. The Knowledge Engineering Review. 2:1 doi: 10.1017/S0269888900000801

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Abstract: Abstract: This review presents a brief survey of approaches to describing dialogues with computers which are relevant to improving communication between users and knowledge based systems. One approach to achieving improvements is to exploit the conventions of human communication. The review draws together some of the work on co-operative behavour which reflects these conventions. An analysis is presented which goes some way towards identifying the knowledge required and the issues to be tackled.

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