Download or read book Toward a Computational Theory of Indirect Speech Arts written by Gretchen P. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Toward a Computational Theory of Indirect Speech Acts written by Gretchen P. Brown and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The variety of surface forms that may be used to convey a given speech act pose a major problem in modelling task-oriented (and other) dialogues. Many such forms are so-called indirect speech acts, that is, surface form does not correspond to the (or one) intended speech act. While this topic has received attention from linguists, their concerns have not usually been computationally motivated. In this paper, I present a non-computational analysis of indirect speech act forms with an eye to computational considerations. The paper is divided into two parts. Part 1 presents categories and rules for indirect speech acts, justified where possible by traditional linguistic arguments. The second part of the paper draws a set of computational implications from the material presented in Part 1. This is done within the general framework of a process model of recognition. Part 2 contains a discussion of the basic types of mechanisms needed for the classes of indirect speech act identified in Part 1. The discussion includes an examination of the dependencies between processes and an initial categorization of the types of knowledge that must be considered in interpreting indirect speech acts. (Author).
Download or read book Technical Abstract Bulletin written by and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Understanding Language written by John A. Moyne and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This textbook is intended for graduate students in computer science and linguistics who are interested in developing expertise in natural language processing (NLP) and in those aspects of artificial intelligence which are concerned with computer models oflanguage comprehension. The text is somewhat different from a number of other excellent textbooks in that its foci are more on the linguistic and psycho linguistic prerequisites and on foundational issues concerning human linguistic behavior than on the description of the extant models and algorithms. The goal is to make the student, undertaking the enormous task of developing computer models for NLP, well aware of the major diffi culties and unsolved problems, so that he or she will not begin the task (as it has often been done) with overoptimistic hopes or claims about the generalizability of models, when such hopes and claims are incon sistent either with some aspects of the formal theory or with known facts about human cognitive behavior. Thus, I try to enumerate and explain the variety of cognitive, linguistic, and pragmatic data which must be understood and formalized before they can be incorporated into a computer model.
Download or read book Towards a Computational Theory of Textual Discourse written by Robert F. Simmons and published by . This book was released on 1978* with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards a computational theory of grounding in natural language conversation written by David R. Traum and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards a Computational Theory of Grounding in Natural Language Conversion written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Towards a Computational Theory of Dialogues written by Graham Allport and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Imagination and Convention written by Ernest LePore and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do hearers manage to understand speakers? And how do speakers manage to shape hearers' understanding? Lepore and Stone show that standard views about the workings of semantics and pragmatics are unsatisfactory. They advance an alternative view which better captures what is going on in linguistic communication.
Download or read book Indian Art Music A Computational Perspective written by Preeti Rao and published by Sriranga Digital Software Technologies Pvt. Ltd.. This book was released on 2023-02-05 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph presents a diverse collection of articles on Indian Art Music based on analytical work aided by computational tools. The book focuses mainly on the current practices in music and its representation in audio recordings, a perspective that is particularly relevant to oral traditions. It presents a rare and unique example of collaboration between musicians, musicologists, scientists, and engineers. The presentation brings together various aspects of research on Indian art music that benefits from audio processing or computing, ranging from musicology to information retrieval to instrument modeling. It is hoped that the monograph will serve as an accessible introduction to computational approaches for Indian art music in particular, and ethnomusicology more generally.
Download or read book Computing Bodies written by Claude Draude and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-06-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claude Draude analyzes embodied software agents – interface solutions that are designed to talk back and give emotional feedback – from a gender and media studies perspective. She addresses technological and sociocultural concepts in their interplay of shifting the boundary between what is considered as human and what as machine. The author discusses the technological realization of specific personality models that define the design of embodied software agents – emotion and gaze models, in particular. Finally, she explores these models in their broader cultural context by relating them to the prominent topic of the Turing test and the notion of the Uncanny Valley.
Download or read book Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts written by and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Handbook of Pragmatics written by Laurence Horn and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Handbook of Pragmatics is a collection of newly commissioned articles that provide an authoritative and accessible introduction to the field, including an overview of the foundations of pragmatic theory and a detailed examination of the rich and varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. Contains 32 newly commissioned articles that outline the central themes and challenges for current research in the field of linguistic pragmatics. Provides authoritative and accessible introduction to the field and a detailed examination of the varied theoretical and empirical subdomains of pragmatics. Includes extensive bibliography that serves as a research tool for those working in pragmatics and allied fields in linguistics, philosophy, and cognitive science. Valuable resource for both students and professional researchers investigating the properties of meaning, reference, and context in natural language.
Download or read book Speech Act Theory and Pragmatics written by John Searle and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the study of language, as in any other systematic study, there is no neutral terminology. Every technical term is an expression of the assumptions and theoretical presuppositions of its users; and in this introduction, we want to clarify some of the issues that have surrounded the assumptions behind the use of the two terms "speech acts" and "pragmatics". The notion of a speech act is fairly well understood. The theory of speech acts starts with the assumption that the minimal unit of human communica tion is not a sentence or other expression, but rather the performance of certain kinds of acts, such as making statements, asking questions, giving orders, describing, explaining, apologizing, thanking, congratulating, etc. Characteristically, a speaker performs one or more of these acts by uttering a sentence or sentences; but the act itself is not to be confused with a sentence or other expression uttered in its performance. Such types of acts as those exemplified above are called, following Austin, illocutionary acts, and they are standardly contrasted in the literature with certain other types of acts such as perlocutionary acts and propositional acts. Perlocutionary acts have to do with those effects which our utterances have on hearers which go beyond the hearer's understanding of the utterance. Such acts as convincing, persuading, annoying, amusing, and frightening are all cases of perlocutionary acts.
Download or read book Text and Context in Functional Linguistics written by Mohsen Ghadessy and published by John Benjamins Publishing. This book was released on 1999 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text aims to examine the nature of text and context, using theoretical models based in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL).
Download or read book Theory and Practice of Natural Computing written by Adrian-Horia Dediu and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-12-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference, TPNC 2014, held in Granada, Spain, in December 2014. The 22 revised full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 47 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on nature-inspired models of computation; synthesizing nature by means of computation; nature-inspired materials; and information processing in nature.
Download or read book The Arts and the Legal Academy written by Zenon Bankowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Western culture, law is dominated by textual representation. Lawyers, academics and law students live and work in a textual world where the written word is law and law is interpreted largely within written and printed discourse. Is it possible, however, to understand and learn law differently? Could modes of knowing, feeling, memory and expectation commonly present in the Arts enable a deeper understanding of law's discourse and practice? If so, how might that work for students, lawyers and academics in the classroom, and in continuing professional development? Bringing together scholars, legal practitioners internationally from the fields of legal education, legal theory, theatre, architecture, visual and movement arts, this book is evidence of how the Arts can powerfully revitalize the theory and practice of legal education. Through discussion of theory and practice in the humanities and Arts, linked to practical examples of radical interventions, the chapters reveal how the Arts can transform educational practice and our view of its place in legal practice. Available in enhanced electronic format, the book complements The Moral Imagination and the Legal Life, also published by Ashgate.
