Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue by Default Rules of Inference

Inferring acceptance and rejection in dialogue by default rules of inference

Inferring Rejection by Default Rules of Inference

This paper discusses the processes by which conversants in a dialogue can infer whether their assertions and proposals have been rejected by their conversational partners. It expands on previous work by showing that logical consistency is a necessary indicator of acceptance, but that it is not sufficient, and that logical inconsistency is sufficient as an indicator of rejection, but it is not n...

Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogueby Default Rules of

This paper discusses the processes by which conversants in a dialogue can infer whether their assertions and proposals have been accepted or rejected by their conversational partners. It expands on previous work by showing that logical consistency is a necessary indicator of acceptance, but that it is not suucient, and that logical inconsistency is suucient as an indicator of rejection, but it ...

The Role of Polarity in Inferring Acceptance and Rejection in Dialogue

We study the role that logical polarity plays in determining the rejection or acceptance function of an utterance in dialogue. We develop a model inspired by recent work on the semantics of negation and polarity particles and test it on annotated data from two spoken dialogue corpora: the Switchboard Corpus and the AMI Meeting Corpus. Our experiments show that taking into account the relative p...

Rejection by Implicature

On one view of dialogue, the conversational record is part of the COMMON GROUND of the conversants. As conversants make assertions, the content of these assertions are added to the common ground, with the effect of limiting the context set (Stalnaker, 1978; Gazdar, 1979). According to Stalnaker, an assertion is assumed to be ACCEPTED, with a concomitant limitation of shared context, unless it i...