Less is more: Using Grice’s maxim of quantity to generate instructional text
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC '97), Vol. 3, pp. 2672 - 2677, October, 1997
Abstract
Plans produced by AI planning systems have the potential to serve as the underlying action representation for systems that generate instructional texts. However, there is more detail in even the simplest, of plan data structures than there is in a typical plan description used by people. This paper describes an operational definition of Grice's (1975) maxim of quantity that guides the selection of appropriate amounts of detail to appear in a textual description of a plan.
BibTeX
@conference{Young-1997-14485,author = {Robert Michael Young},
title = {Less is more: Using Grice's maxim of quantity to generate instructional text},
booktitle = {Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC '97)},
year = {1997},
month = {October},
volume = {3},
pages = {2672 - 2677},
}
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