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A Hybrid Reasoning Model for Indirect Answers

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A Hybrid Reasoning Model for Indirect Answers
This paper presents our implemented computational model for interpreting and generating indirect answers to Yes-No questions. Its main features are 1) a discourse-plan-based approach to implicature, 2) a reversible architecture for generation and interpretation, 3) a hybrid reasoning model that employs both plan inference and logical inference, and 4) use of stimulus conditions to model a speaker's motivation for providing appropriate, unrequested information. The model handles a wider range of types of indirect answers than previous computational models and has several significant advantages.
Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry
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Type Conference
Year 1994
Where ACL
Authors Nancy Green, Sandra Carberry
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