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The aim of this paper is to motivate and specify the logical notion of compliance, which judges whether or not a certain sentence makes a significant contribution towards resolving a given issue in a cooperative dialogue that is geared towards the exchange of information. We assume that such a contribution may consist in (partially) resolving the issue, or in raising an easier to answer sub-issue (cf. Roberts, 1996). Thus, among other things, compliance will provide a characterization of answerhood and subquestionhood: it will tell us which sentences count as (partial) answers to a given question, or as subquestions of that question.
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Groenendijk, J., Roelofsen, F. (2011). Compliance. In: Lecomte, A., Tronçon, S. (eds) Ludics, Dialogue and Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6505. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19211-1_10
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