Toward the computer that can talk with humans -research on the mechanism of the dialogue-

摘要

What is an essence of dialogue? What is an essential constituent for the ability to "Talk"? We report our effort toward the understanding of, and realization in the computer of, the mechanism of dialogues. The topics we attacked include: Development of E-mail user support system through dialogue, analysis of dialogues at collaborative tasks, the dialogue understand- ing based on the Theory of Mind, the interaction strategy for autonomous agents, and metrization of meaning and context.