Journal ArticleDOI
Indirect Speech Acts
Nicholas Asher,Alex Lascarides +1 more
TLDR
It is shown how a formal semantictheory of discourse interpretation can be used to define speech acts and to avoid murky issues concerning the metaphysics of action.Abstract:
In this paper, we address several puzzles concerning speech acts,particularly indirect speech acts. We show how a formal semantictheory of discourse interpretation can be used to define speech actsand to avoid murky issues concerning the metaphysics of action. Weprovide a formally precise definition of indirect speech acts, includingthe subclass of so-called conventionalized indirect speech acts. Thisanalysis draws heavily on parallels between phenomena at the speechact level and the lexical level. First, we argue that, just as co-predicationshows that some words can behave linguistically as if they're `simultaneously'of incompatible semantic types, certain speech acts behave this way too.Secondly, as Horn and Bayer (1984) and others have suggested, both thelexicon and speech acts are subject to a principle of blocking or ``preemptionby synonymy'': Conventionalized indirect speech acts can block their`paraphrases' from being interpreted as indirect speech acts, even ifthis interpretation is calculable from Gricean-style principles. Weprovide a formal model of this blocking, and compare it withexisting accounts of lexical blocking.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
How Players Speak to an Intelligent Game Character Using Natural Language Messages
TL;DR: An observational study with 18 high school students who played Minecraft alongside a Wizard of Oz prototype of a companion AI character that learned from their actions and inputs finds that players’ behaviour and language was differentiated by the extent to which they expressed an anthropomorphic view of the AI character and the level of interest that they showed in interacting with it.
Book ChapterDOI
Regularized Neural User Model for Goal-Oriented Spoken Dialogue Systems
TL;DR: A neural network approach for user modeling that exploits an encoder-decoder bidirectional architecture with a regularization layer for each dialogue act is presented, outperforming previous neural user modeling approaches in terms of F1 score.
Journal ArticleDOI
Common ground, cooperation, and recipient design in human-computer interactions
TL;DR: The authors examined how well Kecskés's socio-cognitive approach (SCA) focusing on asymmetric interactions applies to the asymmetry of human-machine interactions and showed that both egocentrism and cooperation play a role in human-human interaction.
Journal ArticleDOI
The breadth of semantics: reply to critics
Ernie Lepore,Matthew Stone +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explored the scope and limits of linguistic knowledge in semantics and pragmatics for natural language, and drew heavily on the notion of coordination from David Lewis' book on conventions, which they used to develop Imagination and Convention.
Journal ArticleDOI
Making sense of classroom interaction via a multiple-method design: social, experiential and epistemological dimensions
TL;DR: In this article, a contribuicao de uma proposta multi-medodo for o estudo das interacoes em sala de aula is discussed.
References
More filters
Book
How to do things with words
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented a series of lectures with the following topics: Lecture I * Lecture II* Lecture III * Lectures IV* Lectures V * LectURE VI * LectURES VI * LII * LIII * LIV * LVI * LIX
Book ChapterDOI
Logic and Conversation
TL;DR: For instance, Grice was interested in Quine's logical approach to language, although he differed from Quine over certain specific specific questions, such as the viability of the distinction between analytic and synthetic statements.
Book
Head-driven phrase structure grammar
Ivan A. Sag,Carl Jesse Pollard +1 more
TL;DR: This book presents the most complete exposition of the theory of head-driven phrase structure grammar, introduced in the authors' "Information-Based Syntax and Semantics," and demonstrates the applicability of the HPSG approach to a wide range of empirical problems.