Communication Modelling and Context-Dependent Interpretation: An Integrated Approach

Ahn, Rene Rene; Borghuis, Tijn

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“…Type theory has been originally developed for foundational research in mathematics, and has also been applied in the theory of programming languages and in the semantics of natural language (see De Bruijn 1980;Barendregt 1991;Ahn and Kolb 1990). Research in the DENK project has shown the great potential of type-theoretical representations as formalisations of context information, provided the representation structures and proof methods of standard type theory are extended in order to model beliefs and intentions of agents participating in a dialogue (see Borghuis 1995;Ahn and Borghuis 1998). In the DENK system, type theory is used for the semantic representation of the utterances exchanged by the user and the system; for representing the system's knowledge of the discourse domain; and for representing the beliefs that the system believes to be shared with the user.…”

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The ABC of Computational Pragmatics

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Black²

2000

Natural Language Processing

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The ABC of computational pragmatics HARRY BUNT AND BILL BLACK Although 'applied linguistics' is potentially much broader, this field is most heavily engaged with the improvement of methods of teaching and learning. On one side, the learning of language is an obvious application of linguistics, but on the other, considerable effort is devoted to the study of linguistic interaction as the indispensable medium of learning in all subjects. Nearly all approaches to language instruction place considerable emphasis on the learning of contextually appropriate utterances. Modern learning materials are typically organised not by grammatical phenomena, but via a classification of contexts and types of speech act. Teachers and textbook writers often advertise their methods as a 'communicative approach', in contrast to traditional grammar-based approaches.

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The ABC of Computational Pragmatics

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2000

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“…Within that project, CTT was used as the formal basis of a dialogue system. A selection of further papers on information exchange and CTT which arose out of this project are Ahn (1995), Ahn and Borghuis (1997), Beun and Kievit (1995), Kievit (1998), Krahmer and Piwek (forthcoming), and Piwek and Krahmer (in press). Finally, we refer to Beun (1994) and Piwek (1997; for further investigations of dialogue structure and information flow within DENK.…”

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Information flow and gaps

Piwek¹

1998

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In this paper we provide an outline of a model for the flow information in conversations. We explain the model by means of a metaphor. We propose that certain natural language phrases (i.e., anaphoric expressions and questions) are used to express gaps. These gaps are what gives rise to information flow in conversations. After dealing with a simple conversational exchange in terms of this approach, we proceed to deal with different forms of indirect information transfer in conversations as they are manifested by bridging anaphors and indirect answers. At that point, we will leave the metaphorical presentation behind us and examine some of the details of our logic-based model itself. For the full details of the model we refer to Piwek (1998).1. Even utterances such as 'hello' can be seen as conveying information. For instance, 'hello' can be used to indicate that an agent wants to initiate a conversation.

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Communication Modelling and Context-Dependent Interpretation: An Integrated Approach

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