@Article{cohen79a,
  author =	 {Philip R. Cohen and C. Raymond Perrault},
  title =	 {Elements of a Plan-Based Theory of Speech Acts},
  journal =	 {Cognitive Science},
  year =	 1979,
  volume =	 3,
  pages =	 {177--212},
  abstract =	 {This paper explores the truism that people think
                  about what they say. It proposes that, to satisfy
                  their own goals people often plan their speech acts
                  to affect their listeners' beliefs, goals, and
                  emotional states. Such language use can be modeled
                  by viewing speech ads as operators in a planning
                  system, the allowing both physical and speech acts
                  to be integrated into plans. Methodological issues
                  of how speech acts should be defined in a plan based
                  theory are illustrated by defining operators for
                  requesting and informing. Plans containing those
                  operators are presented and comparisons are drawn
                  with Searle's formulation. The operators are shown
                  to be inadequate since they cannot be composed to
                  form questions (requests to inform) and multiparty
                  requests (requests to request). 8y refining the
                  operator definitions and by identifying some of the
                  side effects of requesting, compositional adequacy
                  is achieved. The solution leads to a metatheoretical
                  principle for modeling speech acts as planning
                  operators.},
  keywords =     {multiagent communication classic},
  url = 	 {http://jmvidal.cse.sc.edu/library/cohen79a.pdf},
  googleid = 	 {S43VHpdnOd0J:scholar.google.com/},
  cluster = 	 {15940886254809615691}
}