Conversation as Planned Behavior
Cognitive SciencePublished 1 October 1980
Jerry R. Hobbs, David A. Evans
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Planning models developed in artificial intelligence are applied to the kind of planning that must be carried out by participants in a conversation, and microanalysis suggests ways in which the planning mechanism must be augmented.
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In this paper, planning models developed in artificial intelligence are applied to the kind of planning that must be carried out by participants in a conversation. A planning mechanism is defined, and a short fragment of a free‐flowing videotaped conversation is described. The bulk of the paper is then devoted to an attempt to understand the conversation in terms of the planning mechanism. This microanalysis suggests ways in which the planning mechanism must be augmented, and reveals several important conversational phenomena that deserve further investigation.
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