A Model for Cooperative Interactive Plan Explanation

The Interactive Discourse Planner is designed to describe and justify domain plans interactively. The text plan that IDP incrementally formulates and executes is represented uniformly in the same knowledge base with the domain plans that are under discussion. In this way, the text plan and the domain plans are both accessible for analyzing the user's feedback. IDP can interpret vaguely articulated feedback, generate concise replies and metacomments, and detect when the user's feedback initiates a digression. As a testbed for my model, I am implementing IDP to interactively gives driving directions and route advice. 1 Introduction Planning text to discuss plans interactively relates two areas of research. The first area, plan recognition, focuses on analyzing natural language that is about plans to recognize the speaker's intent and provide helpful responses. From this perspective, the relevant discussion context is the user's domain plans. The second area, text planning, is concerned..