%0 Report %@ 150 %A Grosz, Barbara J. %T The Representation and Use of Focus in a System for Understanding Dialogs %C 333 Ravenswood Ave, Menlo Park, CA 94025 %I AI Center, SRI International %D 1977 %K Dialog %X As a dialog progresses, the objects and actions that are most relevant to the conversation, and hence in the focus of attention of the dialog participants, change. This paper describes a representation of focus for language understanding systems, emphasizing its use in understanding task-oriented dialogs. %O To be presented at the 5th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge, MA, August 22-25, 1977. Superseded by Tech Note 151. %U http://www.ai.sri.com/pubs/files/1411.pdf
