Abstract
A modern cognitive agent should be capable of handling linguistic questions about its beliefs concerning states of the external world. Properly generated linguistic responses should represent empirically-verified bits of agent’s knowledge and inferred beliefs guided by current social stance. The former is captured in a hierarchical model of categorization. The latter represents proposed extension that aside from its knowledge, the responding agent’s response-generation mechanism is guided by two social meta-dimensions, that is, by its attitude towards a content of the enquiry (or towards the interacting agent, in general) and its willingness to elaborate on an answer by providing additional insights or by strengthening its point. In addition, we highlight how the introduced stances may affect the structure and content of the response.
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