Document Type

Conference Paper

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

1.2 COMPUTER AND INFORMATION SCIENCE

Publication Details

Appears in JerSem: The 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, edited by Julie Hunter, Mandy Simons and Matthew Stone. New Brunswick, NJ USA, July 16-18, 2016, pages 25-34.

Abstract

This paper makes three contributions to the discussion on the applicability of Type Theory with Records (TTR) to embodied dialogue agents. First, it highlights the problem of type assignment or judgements in practical implementations which is resource intensive. Second, it presents a judgement control mechanism, which consists of grouping of types into clusters or states by their thematic relations and selection of types following two mechanisms inspired by the Load Theory of selective attention and cognitive control (Lavie et al., 2004), that addresses this problem. Third, it presents a computational framework, based on Bayesian inference, that offers a basis for future practical experimentation on the feasibility of the proposed approach.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/D7S023


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