Understanding pragmatically ill-formed input

  • Authors:
  • M. Sandra Carberry

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware

  • Venue:
  • ACL '84 Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and 22nd annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1984

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Abstract

An utterance may be syntactically and semantically well-formed yet violate the pragmatic rules of the world model. This paper presents a context-based strategy for constructing a cooperative but limited response to pragmatically ill-formed queries. Suggestion heuristics use a context model of the speaker's task inferred from the preceding dialogue to propose revisions to the speaker's ill-formed query. Selection heuristics then evaluate these suggestions based upon semantic and relevance criteria.