@inproceedings{Hirst8,
  author = "Graeme Hirst",
  title = "Negotiation, compromise, and collaboration in interpersonal and human--computer conversations",
  booktitle = "Proceedings, Workshop on Meaning Negotiation, 18th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence",
  address = "Edmonton, AB",
  month = "July",
  year = "2002",
  pages = "1--4",
  abstract = "People are very adept at recognizing when something they said has
              been misunderstood by a conversational partner and at recognizing
              when they themselves have misunderstood something that was said
              earlier in the conversation.  In either case, they will usually say
              something to repair the situation and regain mutual understanding.
              If computers are ever to converse with humans in natural language,
              they must be as adept as people are in their ability to detect and
              repair both their own occasional misunderstandings and also those of
              their conversational partner.  The processes through which
              conversational repairs take place include negotiation, collaboration,
              and construction of meaning.  By modeling the mechanisms for
              collaboration and negotiation that natural language uses that we will
              be able to develop mechanisms for semantic interoperability in
              complex non-linguistic forms of communication.",
  download = "http://ftp.cs.toronto.edu/pub/gh/Hirst-MeanNeg-2002.pdf"
}