This book addresses the question of how current computational approaches to communication can accommodate the complexities of human-human and human-machine communication. It is based on a NATO workshop.

Inhalt
Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Communication.- Integrating Pragmatics into Update Semantics.- Metaphor and Abduction 35.- Communication and Attitude Revision.- Why Text Planning (Still) Isn't Planning.- Language and Discourse in the TRAINS Project.- WIP: The Coordinated Generation of Multimodal Presentations from a Common Representation.- Planning, Reacting, and Communicating.- Agent Modelling for Intelligent Tutoring Settings.- Using Content-based AI to Structure Human-Computer Interaction.- No More Cooperation, Please! In Search of the Social Structure of Verbal Interaction.- Prolegomena to a Theory of Communication and Affect.