The Rhetorical Knowledge Representation System Reference Manual (for Rhet Version 17.9)
The Rhetorical Knowledge Representation System Reference Manual (for Rhet Version 17.9)
Characterizing indirect speech acts
Computational Linguistics
A plan-based analysis of indirect speech acts
Computational Linguistics
A process model for recognizing communicative acts and modeling negotiation subdialogues
Computational Linguistics
A robust system for natural spoken dialogue
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
A prosodic analysis of discourse segments in direction-giving monologues
ACL '96 Proceedings of the 34th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Modeling negotiation subdialogues
ACL '92 Proceedings of the 30th annual meeting on Association for Computational Linguistics
Using linguistic, world, and contextual knowledge in a plan recognition model of dialogue
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
Attitude emergence: an effective interpretation scheme for persuasive discourse
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
Attitude emergence: an effective interpretation scheme for persuasive discourse
COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 3
Analysis system of speech acts and discourse structures using maximum entropy model
ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
Using structural constraints for speech act interpretation
HLT '89 Proceedings of the workshop on Speech and Natural Language
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Existing plan-based theories of speech act interpretation do not account for the conventional aspect of speech acts. We use patterns of linguistic features (e.g. mood, verb form, sentence adverbials, thematic roles) to suggest a range of speech act interpretations for the utterance. These are filtered using plan-based conversational implicatures to eliminate inappropriate ones. Extended plan reasoning is available but not necessary for familiar forms. Taking speech act ambiguity seriously, with these two constraints, explains how "Can you pass the salt?" is a typical indirect request while "Are you able to pass the salt?" is not.