A pragmatic principle for agent communication

1 April 1999

conference paper
Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

p. 368-369
https://doi.org/10.1145/301136.301238

Abstract

Developers of agent communication languages (ACLs) exploit the parallels between agent communication and human communication in specifying the syntax and semantics of their languages. We argue that a complete ACL specification must also address certain issues first recognized in natural language pragmatic theory. Here, we focus on one particular aspect of ACL specification which involves pragmatics - the cooperative use of speech acts.

Keywords

PRAGMATICS
SEMANTICS
AGENT COMMUNICATION
AGENT COMMUNICATION LANGUAGES
PRAGMATIC PRINCIPLE
NATURAL LANGUAGE

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