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TOWARD RECOGNIZING AND CONVEYING AN ATTITUDE OF DOUBT VIA NATURAL LANGUAGE 

Authors: Sandra Carberry; Leah Schroeder
DOI: 10.1080/08839510290030372
Publication Frequency: 10 issues per year
Published in: journal Applied Artificial Intelligence, Volume 16, Issue 7 & 8 August 2002 , pages 495 - 517
Number of References: 34
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Abstract

This paper addresses the dual problems of recognizing when an agent is expressing an attitude of doubt toward a proposition and of realizing natural language utterances that effectively convey such doubt. It presents naturally occurring examples that illustrate the wide variety of ways in which doubt can be expressed. The paper presents a recognition algorithm that uses linguistic, contextual, and world knowledge to determine when an agent is expressing doubt at a proposition and to identify the proposition that is being doubted. It then presents a realization algorithm that uses these knowledge sources to formulate utterances that will convey doubt when an agent cannot accept a proposition due to conflict between it and some other proposition in the agent's knowledge base.
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