Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society

Figuring out what plan another agent might be executing is an important and difficult type of explanation problem which involves a special type of knowledge about plans and goals. Elsewhere, we have discussed an approach to the general explanation problem that involves adapting stored explanations to new situations. In this paper, we review that discussion very briefly and then examine the special issues that arise when applying that approach to explaining intentional actions, focusing on adaptation strategies that are specifically relevant to plan recognition.