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  <Title>DRT Representation of Degrees of Belief</Title>
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6 Conclusion
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    <Paragraph position="0"> As this paper has demonstrated, beliefs vary in strength according to context. Beliefs also change with the coming of new information. The DRT treatment discussed here allows for the representation of strong beliefs and weaker beliefs as well as changes to beliefs. Agents in a dialogue may form stronger beliefs as the dialogue progresses, requiring moving the content of their weaker beliefs to the stronger belief space.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In sum, there is no account in standard DRT that accommodates degrees of belief of agents in dialogue. This paper has addressed this omission and suggested two degrees of belief involved in dialogue, namely 'belief' and 'acceptance'. It is sug- null gested that this is the initial step in representing agents' mental states in dialogue-oriented DRT.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="2"> However, this paper does not deal with words which introduce more degrees of belief than the two addressed in the model. It would be interesting to see more degrees of belief represented in a DRT dialogue model of agents in future research.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="3"> It is possible that such modal expressions can be arranged on a scale corresponding to degrees of belief (cf. Werth 1999). Moreover, this paper has accounted for agent's mutual beliefs and linked agents' beliefs and intentions to the dialogue acts of their utterances, in order to address the problematic nature of accounting for belief in DRT.</Paragraph>
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