Grosz, Barbara2009-03-031975Grosz, Barbara J. 1975. Establishing context in task-oriented dialogs. In Computational linguistics: Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACL Meeting, Oct. 30-Nov. 1, 1975, Boston, Mass., Special Issue, American Journal of Computational Linguistics, ed. ACL and Timothy C. Diller, 4-18. ACM Microfiche Series. Yorktown Heights, N.Y.: ACL.0362-613Xhttp://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.InstRepos:2641694This paper describes part of the discourse component of a speech understanding system for task-oriented dialogs, specifically, a mechanism for establishing a focus of attention to aid in identifying the referents of definite noun phrases.en-US