“We Need to Start Thinking Ahead”: The Impact of Social Context on Linguistic Norm Adherence

Lockshin, Jane; Williams, Tom

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“…We focus on those utterances that have similar surface form, but different meanings due to contextual factors. In future work, we intend exploring how linguistic norms of directness, politeness and brevity, associated with ISAs (Lockshin and Williams, 2020;Wen et al, 2020) can be incorporated into the reasoning process either within or as an extension to Brown's model. We also plan to compare our approach to existing models in inferring ISAs.…”

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Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation

Sarathy

Tsuetaki²,

Roque

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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We perform a corpus analysis to develop a representation of the knowledge and reasoning used to interpret indirect speech acts. An indirect speech act (ISA) is an utterance whose intended meaning is different from its literal meaning. We focus on those speech acts in which slight changes in situational or contextual information can switch the dominant intended meaning of an utterance from direct to indirect or vice-versa. We computationalize how various contextual features can influence a speaker's beliefs, and how these beliefs can influence the intended meaning and choice of the surface form of an utterance. We axiomatize the domain-general patterns of reasoning involved, and implement a proof-of-concept architecture using Answer Set Programming. Our model is presented as a contribution to cognitive science and psycholinguistics, so representational decisions are justified by existing theoretical work.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation

Sarathy

Tsuetaki²,

Roque

et al. 2020

Proceedings of the 28th International Conference on Computational Linguistics

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“…Apart from being found in Central Borneo, the Dayak Ngaju people are also found in East Kalimantan and West Kalimantan [5]. The Dayak Ngaju people who live and live in Central Kalimantan, in communicating mostly use the Dayak Ngaju language, Banjar language and Indonesian.…”

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Communication of Dayak Ngaju's Language in the Form of Local Families in Central Borneo, Indonesia

Liadi,

Qudsiyah

et al. 2024

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This research will focus on the use of Dayak Ngaju communication related to the form of family greetings that can be seen from the completeness of its elements. Dayak Ngaju communication forms of family greetings are divided into three parts namely: complete greeting forms, incomplete greeting forms, and a combination of complete greeting forms and incomplete greeting forms. Based on the meaning and meaning of language communication, the form of family greetings includes the form of self-names, kinship terms, national titles, adjective transpositions, and beatings. The most influential factors of communication in the form of family greetings are: first, the seniority factor in terms of age, seniority is commonly known globally. The senior will hold the most influential string of honor. However, seniority in this tribe is related to the age of the oldest from the older people. So the oldest age position will hold the highest rope and receive the highest familial honor. As a reflection it is appropriate to be a leader in the family ties within the internal environment of their family, second is the level of rank in the family such as birth order. Based on this birth order, generally, families in this tribe will give honorary titles based on birth order. If the first sibling or first brother is not present then the authority to manage the family will be delegated to the sibling born in the second order. Keywords: communication, Dayak Ngaju, greeting form, polite language

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“…(Stages 1 and 2 in Figure 2) Social norms manifest in different ways depending on the conversational context (Lockshin and Williams, 2020). An issue in dialogue generation from a small amount of hand-written data is its lack of diversity, as incontext examples have a large impact on prompting results (Min et al, 2022).…”

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NormDial: A Comparable Bilingual Synthetic Dialog Dataset for Modeling Social Norm Adherence and Violation

Li,

Subramanian,

Saakyan

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing

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Social norms fundamentally shape interpersonal communication. We present NORMDIAL, a high-quality dyadic dialogue dataset with turn-by-turn annotations of social norm adherences and violations for Chinese and American cultures. Introducing the task of social norm observance detection, our dataset is synthetically generated in both Chinese and English using a human-in-the-loop pipeline by prompting large language models with a small collection of expert-annotated social norms. We show that our generated dialogues are of high quality through human evaluation and further evaluate the performance of existing large language models on this task. Our findings point towards new directions for understanding the nuances of social norms as they manifest in conversational contexts that span across languages and cultures.

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“We Need to Start Thinking Ahead”: The Impact of Social Context on Linguistic Norm Adherence

Cited by 11 publications

References 11 publications

Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation

Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation

Communication of Dayak Ngaju's Language in the Form of Local Families in Central Borneo, Indonesia

NormDial: A Comparable Bilingual Synthetic Dialog Dataset for Modeling Social Norm Adherence and Violation

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