This paper reviews plan-based models of dialogue. The original model is thoroughly presented. Important developments of the original model are also presented. Finally, benefits and drawbacks of plan-based approaches to dialogue modelling are discussed. Introduction Plan-based dialogue models have since long earned their place in works intended to present computational linguistics in general and...

WINTER 1991 93 ing primarily through the work of Philip Cohen, C. Raymond Perrault, and James Allen (Cohen and Perrault 1979; Allen and Perrault 1980; Perrault and Allen 1980). In their work, plan recognition was applied to the processing of dialogues (particularly those between a customer and a ticket clerk at a railway station). Programs were developed that reasoned from the explicit utteranc...

The story of Bluebeard belongs to the fairy tales written by Perrault, which in later times have seen almost countless travesties – literature, film, opera and others. This article attempts make a comparative analysis three French-language literary versions from early classics (Charles Perrault), through turn nineteenth twentieth centuries (Anatole France), modern (Tahar Ben Jelloun). reasons f...

Perrault syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by sensorineural deafness and ovarian dysgenesis. Some patients also have neurologic abnormalities, including cerebellar ataxia, nystagmus, polyneuropathy and mild mental retardation. The syndrome is known to be caused by mutations in HSD17B4 or HARS2 until now but few patients were reported. We report on two sporadic Korean pat...

A semantical theory of belief revision in synchronous multi-agent systems is presented. The theory assumes that the world is static, and that the belief revision methods used by the agents are common knowledge. It is shown that the theory has as a special case the revision of knowledge in a broadcast variant of Fagin and Vardi's communicating scientists model, in which knowledge is deened in te...