TR2000-39

Collaborating with Focused and Unfocused Users Under Imperfect Communication

    •  Lesh, N.B., Rich, C., Sidner, C.L., "Collaborating with Focused and Unfocused Users Under Imperfect Communication", International Conference on User Modeling (UM), July 2001, pp. 63-74.
      BibTeX TR2000-39 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Lesh2001jul,
      • author = {Lesh, N.B. and Rich, C. and Sidner, C.L.},
      • title = {Collaborating with Focused and Unfocused Users Under Imperfect Communication},
      • booktitle = {International Conference on User Modeling (UM)},
      • year = 2001,
      • pages = {63--74},
      • month = jul,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2000-39}
      • }
  • Research Area:

    Communications

Abstract:

A totally focused user always finishes the current task or subtask before moving on to another. Typical users, however, sometimes shift back and forth between incomplete tasks and do not always communicate before doing so. This behavior poses a problem for a software agent that uses plan recognition to support its collaboration with users. Our solution is a discourse interpretation algorithm which balances between asking too many questions about a user\'s intentions and sometimes being wrong about them.

 

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    •  NEWS    UM 2001: publication by MERL researchers and others
      Date: July 13, 2001
      Where: International Conference on User Modeling (UM)
      Research Area: Communications
      Brief
      • The paper "Collaborating with Focused and Unfocused Users Under Imperfect Communication" by Lesh, N.B., Rich, C. and Sidner, C.L. was presented at the International Conference on User Modeling (UM).
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