Goal-oriented Dialog as a Collaborative Subordinated Activity involving Collective Acceptance

TL;DR

This paper formalizes Collective Acceptance as a key social attitude for modeling goal-oriented dialog, integrating it into a rational framework and illustrating its role in referential acts within collaborative activities.

Contribution

It introduces a formalization of Collective Acceptance and demonstrates its integration into a rational model of goal-oriented dialog, focusing on referential acts.

Findings

Formalization of Collective Acceptance provided

Model of referential acts as collaborative activity

Enhanced understanding of social attitudes in dialog modeling

Abstract

Modeling dialog as a collaborative activity consists notably in specifying the content of the Conversational Common Ground and the kind of social mental state involved. In previous work (Saget, 2006), we claim that Collective Acceptance is the proper social attitude for modeling Conversational Common Ground in the particular case of goal-oriented dialog. In this paper, a formalization of Collective Acceptance is shown, besides elements in order to integrate this attitude in a rational model of dialog are provided; and finally, a model of referential acts as being part of a collaborative activity is presented. The particular case of reference has been chosen in order to exemplify our claims.