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.
| Original language | English |
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| Publication status | Published - 2016 |
| Event | The 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue - New Brunswick, NJ, United States Duration: 16 Jul 2016 → 18 Jul 2016 |
Conference
| Conference | The 20th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | New Brunswick, NJ |
| Period | 16/07/16 → 18/07/16 |
Keywords
- Type Theory with Records
- embodied dialogue agents
- type assignment
- judgements
- judgement control mechanism
- Load Theory
- selective attention
- cognitive control
- Bayesian inference