Ideology, power, and identity are truly reflected in people’s daily discourse including mark negotiation discourse of students. Peculiar power relations in Iranian academic settings and the unique features of politeness in Farsi extending up to Ta’arof motivated the researcher to statistically analyze a total of 50 mark negotiation discourse samples of Iranian university students from diverse d...

Negotiation is an important part of task-oriented expert-consultation dialogues. This paper presents a plan-based model for understanding cooperative negotiation subdialogues. Our system infers both the communicative actions that people pursue when speaking and the beliefs underlying these actions. Beliefs, and the strength of these beliefs, are recognized from the surface form of utterances,fr...

eter value higher (or lower depending on the QoS parameter, e.g. higher for delay and lower for jitter) than the one corresponding to a proposal we increase the mark of this proposal by one. Hence the best solution gets the minimum mark. If the mark of the best solution is zero, the negotiation succeeds. Otherwise the user must give some new values. If the best mark is got by several proposals,...

This paper addresses Chinese discourse segmentation based on punctuation mark. Particularly, we propose various kinds of lexical, syntactic, position and punctuation features to train classifiers for Chinese discourse segmentation. Experimental results on CDTB (Chinese Discourse Treebank) show that our method based on punctuation mark is appropriate for Chinese discourse segmentation with 89.2%...

Negotiation is key to resolving conflicts, allocating resources and establishing cooperation in systems of selfinterested agents. Often, an agent may have to select between different potential negotiation partners, and identifying which offers the best chance of a successful negotiation is a challenging task. However, poor selection of partners can result in failure or in inefficient outcomes. ...

This paper presents a plan-based model that handles negotiation subdialogues by inferring both the communicative actions that people pursue when speaking and the beliefs underlying these actions. We contend that recognizing the complex discourse actions pursued in negotiation subdialogues (e.g., expressing doubt) requires both a multi-strength belief model and a process model that combines diff...

It is well known that there are no static non-Abelian monopole solutions in pure Yang-Mills theory on Minkowski space R. We show that such solutions exist in SU(N) gauge theory on the spaces R × S and R × S × S with Minkowski signature (− + ++). In the temporal gauge they are solutions of pure Yang-Mills theory on T × S, where T is R or S. Namely, imposing SO(3)-invariance and some reality cond...

We argue that finite clauses should be regarded as the basic unit in syntactic analysis of spoken language, and describe a method that automatically detects clause boundaries by classifying coordinating conjunctions in spoken language discourse as belonging to either the syntactic level or the discourse level of analysis. The method exploits the special role that coordinating conjunctions play ...

Collaborations to accomplish common goals necessitate negotiation to share and reach agreement on the beliefs that agents hold as part of the collaboration. Negotiation in communication can be simulated by a series of exchanges in which agents propose, reject, counterpropose or seek supporting information for beliefs they wish to be held mutually. In an artificial language of negotiation, messa...