Speech Acts in Electronic Communication With Special Reference to KQML and ANSI X12

Authors:
Michael A. Covington
Affiliations:
-
Venue:
HICSS '97 Proceedings of the 30th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences: Information Systems Track—Internet and the Digital Economy - Volume 4
Year:
1997

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Abstract

This paper examines the encoding of speech acts inKQML at length and in ANSI X12 briefly. KQML is aspeech-act-based language developed with ARPA funding,and X12 is the American standard for electronic data interchange(EDI) message formats.I conclude that although speech act theory is highly relevantto electronic communication, the needs of computersare different from those of humans. Computers need to perform concisely speech acts that are clumsy in human speech,such as arranging communication paths. They also needto recognize speech act types as immediately as possible,whereas human language gets along with clumsy encodingof speech acts into grammar.