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"text": "In cooperative man-machine interaction, it is taken as necessary that a system truthfully and informatively respond to a user's question. It is not, however, sufficient. In particular, if the system has reason to believe that its planned response nfight lead the user to draw an inference that it knows to be false, then it must block it by nmdifying or adding to its response. The problem is that a system neither can nor should explore all eonchtsions a user might possibly draw: its reasoning must be constrained in some systematic and well-motivated way.",
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"text": "Such cooperative behavior was investigated in [5] , in which a modification of Griee's Maxim of Quality is proposed:",
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"text": "If you, the speaker, plan to say anything which may imply for the hearer something that you believe to be false, then provide further information to block it. This behavior was studied in the context of interpreting certain definite noun phrases. In this paper, we investigate this revised principle as applied to question answering. In particular the goals of the research described here are to: I. characterize tractable cases in which the system as respondent (R) can anticipate the possibility of the user/questioner (Q) drawing false conclusions from its response and can hence alter or expand its response so as to prevent it happening; 2. develop a formal method for computing the projected inferences that Q may draw from a particular response, identifying those 1This work is partially supported by NSF 100. 2At present visiting the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104. factors whose presence or absence catalyzes the inferences; 3. enable the system to generate modifications of its response that can defuse possible false inferences and that [nay provide additional useful information as well.",
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"text": "Before we begin, it is important to see how this work differs from our related work on responding when the system notices a discrepancy between its beliefs and those of its user [7, 8, 9, 18] . For example, if a user asks \u2022 How many French students failed CSEI21 last term?', he shows that he .believes inter alia that the set of French students is non-empty, that there is a course CSEI21, and that it, was given last term. If the system simply answers \"None', he will assume the system concurs w'ith these b~diefs since the answer is consistent with them. Furthermore, he may conclude that French students do r;'d.her well in a difficult course. But this may be a false conclusion if the system doesn't hold to all of those beliefs (e.g., it doesn't know of any French students).",
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"text": "Thus while the system's assertion \"No French students failed CSEI21 last term\" is true, it has misled the user (1) inlo believing it concurs with the user's beliefs and (2) into drawing additional false conclusions from its response. 3 The differences between this related work and the current enterprise are that:",
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"text": "\u2022 false conclusions drawn by standard default reasoning -i.e., by the user/listener concluding (incorrectly) that there is nothing special about this case",
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"text": "\u2022 false conclusions drawn in a task-oriented context on the basis of the user's expectations about the way a cooperative expert will respond.",
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"text": "In Section II, we discuss examples of the first type, where the respondent (R) can reason that the questioner {Q) may inappropriately apply a default rule to the (true) information conveyed in R's response and hence draw a false conclusion. We characterize appropriate information for R to include in his response to block it. In Section HI, we describe examples of the second type. Finally, in Section IV, we discuss our claim regarding the primary constraint posed here on limiting R's responsibilities with respect to anticipating false conclusions that Q may draw from its response: that is, it is only that part of R's knowledge base that is already in focus (given the interaction up to that point, including R's formulating a direct answer to Q's query) that will be involved in anticipating the conclusions that Q may draw from R's response.",
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"text": "Default reasoning is usually studied in the context of a logical system in its own right or an agent who reasons about the world from partial information and hence may draw conclusions unsupported by traditional logic. However, one can also look at it in the context of interacting agents. An agent's reasoning depends not only on his perceptions of the world but also on the information he receives in interacting with other agents. This information is partial, in that another agent neither will nor can make everything explicit. Knowing this, the first agent (Q) will seek to derive information implicit in the interaction, in part by contrasting what the other agent (R) has made explicit with what Q assumes would have been made explicit, were something else the case. Because of this, R must be careful to forestall inappropriate derivations that Q might draw. The question is on what basis R should rea.~on that Q may ~sume some piece of infotmati(>n (P) would have been made explicit in the interaction, were it the ease.",
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"text": "One basis, we contend, is the likelihood that Q will apply some staudard default rule of the type discussed by Reiter [15] if R doesn't make it explicite that the rule is not applicable. Reiter introduced the idea of default rules in the stand-alone context of an agent or logical system filling in its own partial information. Most standard default rules embody the sense that \"given no reason to suspect otherwise, there's nothing special about the current case'. For example, for a bird what would be special is that it can't fly -i.e., \u2022Most birds fly\u2022. Knowing only that Tweety is a bird and no reason to suspect otherwise, an agent may conclude by default that there's nothing special about Tweety and so he can fly.",
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"text": "This kind of default reasoning can lead to false conclusions in a stand-along situation, but also in an interaction. That is, in a question-answer interaction, if the respondent (l{) has reason for knowing or suspecting that the situation goes counter to the standard default, it seems to be common practice to convey this information to the questioner (Q), to block his pote, tially a.ssuming the default. To see this, consider the following two examples. (The first is very much like the \"Tweety\" case above, while the second seems more general.) A. Example 1 Suppose it's the case that most associate professors are tenured and most of them have Ph.Ds. Consider the following interchange Q: Is Sam an ~sociate professor? R: Yes, but he doesn't have tenure. There are two thi, gs to account for here: (1) Given the information w&s not requested, why did R include the \"but\" clause, and (2) why this clause and not another one? We claim that the answer to the second question has to do with that part of R's knowledge base that is currently in focus. This we discuss more in Section IV. In the meantime, we will just refer to this subset as (c) Sam is not tenured. (b) may be in RBc because the question of tenure may be in context. Based on RBc, R's direct response is clearly \"Yes'. This direct response however eouJd lead Q to conclude falsely, by default reasoning, that Sam is tenured. That is, R can reason that, given just (b) and his planned response \"Yes\" (i.e., if (c) is not in Q's knowledge base}, Q could infer by default reasoning that Sam is tenured, which R knows with respect to !RBc is false.",
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"text": "As in Reiter's discussion, \"M(P)\" means it is consistent to assume that P. In the associate professor example, B corresponds to the predicate \"is an associate professor', F, to the predicate \"has tenure', and c, to Sam. Using such an inslantiated rule schema, R will recognize that Q is likely to conclude F(c) -\"Sam has tenure\" -which. is false with rvspe(.t to RBc {and hence, with respect to all of R's knowledge base). Thus R will modify his direct response so as to block this false conclusion.",
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"text": "Consider a user one of the mail systems on the DEC-20. To exit from this system, a user who has finished reading all the messages he earlier specified can just type a carriage return. To exit under other circumstances, the user must type QUIT. Consider the following interchange between a new user who has finished reading all his messages and either a mail system expert or the mail system itself.",
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"text": "Q: How (In I get out of mail? R~ Since you h:tve read all your specified messages, you can just type a carriage return. In all cases, you (':ill got ()lit by typing QHT. Here tile prohh,m is to account for all that part of R's response beyond the simple truthful statement \"You can type a carriage return.\"",
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"text": "A general statement of this probh,m is a.s follows: Agent Q is in one situation (Sl) and wants to be in another ($2). There is a general procedure P for achieving $2 from any of several situations including Sl. There is a special prodecure P* (i.e., shorter, faster, simpler, etc.) for achieving $2 frolu Sl. Q doesn't know how to achieve $2, but R does (including proced,res P and P*). Q asks R how to achieve $2.",
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"text": "If R knows.i~lat Q is in situation SI and truthfully responds to Q's request by simply telling him P*, Q may falsely conclude that P* is a general procedure for achieving $2. That is, as in the Tweety and Sam examples, if Q has no reason to suspect anything special about SI (such that P* only applies to it), then there is nothing special about it. Therefore P* is adequate for achieving $2, whatever situation Q is in. 4 Later when Q tries to apply P* in a different situation to achieve $2, he may find that it doesn't work. As a particular examl)le of this, consider the mail case again. In this ca.se~ SI = Q has read all his messages $2 = Q is out of the mail system P ~---typing QUIT P* --typing a carriage return ~Lssume RBc contains at least the following informa.tion: (e) Sl6r (f) simpler(P*,P) (g) VsE,~. \"-{s = SI) =* -~(P*ls) = $21 where 17 is some set of states which includes SI and P(s) indicates action P applied to state S.",
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"text": "Constraining the Renpondent's Obligations As many people have observed -from studies across a range of linguistic phenomena, including co-referring expressions [3, 4, 16] , left dislocations [14] , epitomizatkm [17] , etc. -a speaker (R) normally focuses on n particular part of its knowledge base. What he focuses on dcpends in part oil (1) eoutext, (2} R's partial knf~wledge of Q's overall goals, as well as what Q knows already as a result of the interaction up to that point, and (3} Q's particular query, etc. The precise nature of how these various factors affect focusing is complex and is receiving much attention [3, 4, 16] . However, no matter how these various factors contribute to focusing, we can certainly assume that H comes to focus on a subset of its knowledge base in order to provide a direr answer to Q's query (at some level of inl,.rpretalion). Let us call this subset RBc for \"R's current belief.~ ~. Our claim is tlmt one important constraint on cooperative behavior is that it is determined b.v RBc only. Clearly the i;ib~rmal.ion needed for a direct response is contained in RBc, a.~ is the information needed for many types of helpful responses.",
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