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    "title": "Mechanisms for Mixed-Initiative Human-Computer Collaborative Discourse",
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    "abstract": "In this paper, we examine mechanisms for automatic dialogue initiative setting. We show how to incorporate initiative changing in a task-oriented human-computer dialogue system, and we evaluate the effects of initiative both analytically and via computer-computer dialogue simulation.",
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                "text": "In this paper, we examine mechanisms for automatic dialogue initiative setting. We show how to incorporate initiative changing in a task-oriented human-computer dialogue system, and we evaluate the effects of initiative both analytically and via computer-computer dialogue simulation.",
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                "text": "Task-Oriented Dialogues Efficient human-computer dialogue requires immediate utterance-by-utterance accommodation to the needs of the interaction. The participants must continuously focus all concerns on the goals of the task and avoid extraneous paths. This means that the dialogue initiative should always pass immediately to the participant who is best able to handle the current task. An agent is said to have dialogue initiative over a mutual goal when that agent controls how that goal will be solved by the collaborators. In the implemented voice dialogue system \"The Circuit Fix-it Shop\" (Smith et al., 1992; Smith and Hipp, 1995) , the dialogue fragment given in Figure 1 occurs between a human user and a computer collaborator. Utterances 2 and 4 indicate that the computer is directing the search for the missing wire in the faulty circuit. However, in Utterance 5 the user takes the initiative and suggests a different wire than has been proposed by the computer. In this paper we will present a theory explaining how initiative changes between participants and how computational agents can evaluate who should be in control of solving a goal.",
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                "text": "1 U The LED is displaying an alternately flashing one and the top corner of a seven. 2 C There is supposed to be a wire between connector nine nine and connector one zero zero. 3 U It is there. 4 C There is supposed to be a wire between connector nine eight and connector one zero two. 5 U There is no wire on connector one zero four.",
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                "text": "[emphasis mine] 6 C There is supposed to be a wire between connector one zero four and connector one zero two. is in control and the other agent is passive (the master-slave assumption). For instance, in the LAD-DER system (Hendrix et al., 1978) the user has the initiative while the computer is passive. In contrast, the VODIS system (Young and Proctor, 1989) has the computer taking the initiative while the user is passive. Some dialogue systems (like GUS (Bobrow et al., 1977) ) allow for a more mixed-initiative interaction; however, the places where the user can take the initiative are limited and defined a priori. The dialogue model of Smith (1995) allows for either the computer or the user to assume degrees of initiative; however, Smith presents no algorithm for the computer to change initiative during a dialogue. Our model of mixed-initiative dialogue allows either participant to be in control of the dialogue at any point in time.",
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                "text": "Like Smith (1995) we believe that the level of ini-Many implemented dialogue systems are question-tiative in the dialogue should mirror the level of inianswer systems with fixed initiative where one agent tiative in the task (which is a corollary to Grosz's (1978) the structure of a dialog mirrors the structure o] the underlying task). Unlike previous research in dialogue initiative, however, we attach an initiative level to each goal in the task tree. Thus an agent may have initiative over one goal but not another. As goals get pushed and popped from the problemsolving stack, initiative changes accordingly. Thus many initiative changes are done implicitly based on which goal is being solved.",
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                "text": "In our model of dialogue, initiative levels for each goal are defined during the interaction based on 1) explicit and implicit initiative-changing utterances and 2) competency evaluation. Explicit and Implicit Initiative-Changing Utterances Several researchers (Whittaker and Stenton, 1988; Walker and Whittaker, 1990) have noted that dialogue control can be exchanged through overt cues in the discourse. Our model concentrates on two specific dialogue cues: questions and answers. When an agent AI asks another agent A2 to satisfy a goal G, agent A2 gains initiative over goal G and all subgoals of G until agent A2 passes control of one of those subgoals back to agent A1. A similar initiative-setting mechanism is fired if agent A1 announces that it cannot satisfy goal G. When a goal has been answered (satisfied) the problem-solving stack is popped. The initiative will now belong to whomever the initiative is for the goal on top of the stackJ. In the following human-computer dialogue gathered by Smith and Hipp(Smith and Hipp, 1995) , U: How do I fix this circuit? C: What is the LED displaying? U: Nothing. C: What is the switch at? U: Where is the switch? C: In the lower left corner. U: The switch is down. C: Put the switch up. all initiative changes can be accounted for by explicit initiative-changing utterances or by popping of the problem-solving stack due to goal resolution as illustrated in Figure 1 .",
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                "text": "Competency Evaluation for Initiative Setting How does an agent decide whether to ask its collaborator for help? An obvious approach is to ask for help when the agent is unable to satisfy a goal on its own. This approach is the basic mechanism for several dialogue systems iSince each participant is carrying out initiative evaluation independently, there may be conflicts on who should be in control. Numerous researchers have studied how negotiation may be used to resolve these conflicts (Guinn, 1994; Guinn, 1993a; Lambert and Carberry, 1992; McRoy, 1993; Sidner, 1993) and Hipp, 1995; Guinn, 1994 ). An additional approach is to ask the collaborator for help if it is believed that the collaborator has a better chance of solving the goal (or solving it more efficiently). Such an evaluation requires knowledge of the collaborating agent's capabilities as well as an understanding of the agent's own capabilities.",
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