Plan parsing for intended response recognition in discourse 1

In a discourse the hearer must recognize the response intended by the speaker. To perform this recognition, the hearer must ascertain what plans the speaker is undertaking and how the utterances in the discourse further that plan. To do so, the hearer can parse the initial intentions (recoverable from the utterance) and recognize the plans the speaker has in mind and intends the hearer to know about. This paper reports on a theory of parsing the intentions in discourse. It also discusses the role of another aspect of discourse, discourse markers, that are valuable to intended response recognition.

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