Context-dependent interpretation and implicit dialogue acts

Revisiting the DARPA communicator data using conversation analysis

“…At (4) the system provides a piece of information -that there are no records that satisfy the caller's request -and in the same turn it goes on to make a suggestion -perhaps a different day. Although this response makes perfect sense from the perspective of information state update [12], from a social actor it is rude. If it does not appear rude to the reader, consider how you would feel if a call centre operator used these words.…”

Frolog

“…If we take a dialogue perspective on Lewis' (1979) notion of accommodation and assume that the state of a dialogue is changed by the acts performed by the dialogue participants, it is natural to interpret Lewis' broad notion of accommodation as tacit (or implicit) dialogue acts. This is the approach adopted by Kreutel and Matheson (2003) who formalize the treatment of tacit dialogue acts in the information state update framework. According to them, accommodation is ruled by the following principle:…”

Dialogue macrogame theory

“…Since the end of that work this term has been used in many other ways that are not technically related to the ISI usage. In addition, the terms dialogue act, conversational act, and conversational game are in wide use (Carlson 1983) (Kreutel and Matheson 2001) (Traum 1994;Poesio and Traum 1998;Traum 1999) .…”