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Conclusion
Communication abilities are a critical operational issue at all levels of the organisation.
To optimise performance in operations, people must thus be trained in.
A tool implemented on computer allows for training anytime anywhere.
HPSG and MRS do not pose fundamental modelling problems.
Analysis with SDRT is only possible if an effective system of rules and axioms about the state
of the world for the problem a hand exists.
These rules and axioms have to be derived from the analysis of empirical data. This means in
the context of our project the analysis of a number of “real life” negotiations and/or good
simulations/role playings which have been recorded.
The “theory” about the state of the world is than build step by step and adjusted when needed
to fit with new data.
This is precisely what we will start in the coming months: recording “input” through role
playing games at the Royal Higher Defence Institute because we experienced a number of
unbridgeable difficulties with the real life data in Kosovo; especially due to the language
problems and the use of a third party, the interpreter.
The next steps are then deriving the rules and axioms, followed by implementing them in an
algorithm to build an SDRT from a series of MRS produced by LKB. Stated otherwise, we
have to create a “glue language” which allows for hooking a sentence somewhere to the
already elaborated structure.
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