Context in communication


• Context is a property of agent interaction
  
  
• Communication implies the sharing of a linguistic code and a context
  
  
• Context is history, knowledge state of agents, etc.
  
  
• Role of Context :
  
  

• To make shared knowledge explicit during interactions among agents
  
• To control actions to achieve goals
  
• To predict user's needs
  
• To help plan/predict course of dialogue
  
• To reduce cognitive load/human memory load
  
• To resolve ambiguity and conflict
  
  

• For predicting next actions of users
  
  -Stored in long-term memory and recalled as a whole
  
  
• Hence, We can say that :
  
  Communication and context constrain each other, and
  
  Context and communication influence each other.