References

Because it assumes so much previous knowledge, the book will not be useful to the casual reader. One would be at a disadvantage without a reasonable familiarity with predicate calculus and modal logic, AI planning formalisms, and the work of Perrault and Allen on interpreting speech acts (for example, Allen and Perrault [1980]; Perrault and Allen [1980]). Accordingly, the reader of this review should be warned that my point of view is that of a researcher (specifically, an academic researcher) rather than a system builder; your mileage might vary. No review of this book would be complete without some mention of the commentaries, critical pieces written by other workshop participants that follow groups of related papers. Each commentator did an excellent job.