Research Catalog

Title

Intentions in communication / edited by Philip R. Cohen, Jerry Morgan, and Martha E. Pollack.

Publication

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1990.

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Additional Authors

• Cohen, Philip R.
• Morgan, Jerry L.
• Pollack, Martha E.

Description

x, 508 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Systems Development Foundation benchmark series

Uniform Title

Systems Development Foundation benchmark series.

Subject

• Communication
• Discourse analysis
• Intention
• Pragmatics
• Speech acts (Linguistics)

Note

• "A Bradford book."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Introduction / Philip R. Cohen, Jerry Morgan, and Martha E. Pollack -- What is intention? / Michael E. Bratman -- Persistence, intention, and commitment / Philip R. Cohen and Hector J. Levesque -- Two views of intention : comments on Bratman and on Cohen and Levesque / James F. Allen -- Plans as complex mental attitudes / Martha E. Pollack -- A circumscriptive theory of plan recognition / Henry Kautz -- On plans and plan recognition : comments on Pollack and on Kautz / W.A. Woods -- Toward a formal theory of communication and speech acts / Andrew J.I. Jones -- An application of default logic to speech act theory / C. Raymond Perrault -- Comments on Jones and on Perrault / Jerry Morgan -- On the unification of speech act theory and formal semantics / Daniel Vanderveken.
• Rational interaction as the basis for communication / Philip R. Cohen and Hector J. Levesque -- Comments on Vanderveken and on Cohen and Levesque / Jerrold M. Sadock -- The meaning of intonational contours in the interpretation of discourse / Janet Pierrehumbert and Julia Hirschberg -- The Pierrehumbert-Hirschberg theory of intonational meaning made simple : comments on Pierrehumbert and Hirschberg / Jerry R. Hobbs -- Accommodation, meaning, and implicature : interdisciplinary foundations for pragmatics / Richmond H. Thomason -- Discourse processing and commonsense plans / Diane J. Litman and James F. Allen -- Communicative intentions, plan recognition, and pragmatics : comments on Thomason and on Litman and Allen / Kent Bach.
• Collective intentions and actions / John R. Searle -- Plans for discourse / Barbara J. Grosz and Candace L. Sidner -- Artificial intelligence and collective intentionality : comments on Searle and on Grosz and Sidner / Jerry R. Hobbs -- A reply to Hobbs / Barbara J. Grosz and Candace L. Sidner -- Referring as a collaborative process / Herbert H. Clark and Deanna Wilkes-Gibbs.

ISBN

0262031507

LCCN

^^^89012759^

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library