ATNS used as a procedural dialog model

Abstract

An attempt has been made to use an Augmented Transition Network IO as a 'procedural dialog model'. The development of such a model appears to be important in several respects:-as a device to represent and to use different dialog schemata proposed in empirical conversation analysis;-as a device to represent and to use models of verbal interaction;-as a device combining knowledge about dialog schemata and about verbal interaction with knowledge about taskoriented and goal-directed dialogs. A standard ATN should be further developed in order to account for the verbal interactions of task-oriented dialogs.