maxims of conversation that entail that speakers adopt shared intentions and fully aligned
preferences–eg (Allen and Litman, 1987; Lochbaum, 1998). These assumptions are
unwarranted in many conversational settings. In this paper we propose a different view and
an annotation scheme for it. We propose a game theoretic approach to conversation. While
we assume like Grice that conversational agents are rational, agents talk to maximize their …