Perspectives on dialogue in the new millennium / edited by Peter Kuhnlein, Hannes Rieser, Henk Zeevat.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kühnlein, Peter.

Rieser, Hannes.

Zeevat, Henk, 1952-

Series:

Pragmatics & beyond ; new ser. 114.

Pragmatics & beyond, 0922-842X ; new ser. 114

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dialogue analysis.

Physical Description:

395 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Pub., c2003.

Summary:

The formal treatment of the semantics and pragmatics of dialogue became possible through a series of breakthroughs in foundational methodology. There is broad consensus on a couple of issues, like the fact that some variety of dynamic theory is necessary to capture certain characteristics of dialogue. Other matters still are disputed.This volume contains papers both of foundational and applied orientation. It is the result of one of a series of specialized Workshops on Formal Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue that took place in 2001. One can therefore truly say that it mirrors both the state of the art at the end of the past millennium and research strategies that are pursued at the beginning of the new millennium.The collected papers cover the range from philosophy of language to computer science, from the analysis of presupposition to investigations into corpora, and touches upon topics like the role of speech acts in dialogue or language specific phenomena. This broad coverage will make the volume valuable for students of dialogue from all fields of expertise.

Contents:

Perspectives on Dialogue in the New Millennium

Editorial page

Title page

LCC page

Table of contents

Perspectives on dialogue in the New Millennium

Foreword

Imperatives in dialogue

1. Introduction

2. The compositional semantics of imperatives

3. Going dynamic

4. Imperatives and rhetorical relations

4.1. Defeasible conditionals and metatalk relations

4.2. Imperative answers

4.3. Corrections

5. Some concluding remarks

Acknowledgements

Notes

References

Integrating conversational move types in the grammar of conversation

2. Motivation for integrating CMT in grammatical analysis

3. Integrating CMT into a constraint-based grammar

3.1. Basics

3.2. Reprise uses and CMTs

4. Conclusions and future work

An hpsg-based representation model for illocutionary acts in crisis talk

1. A modified formalism

2. Crisis talk and application of the formalism

3. Conditions and rules and their relation to the hpsg-based model

3.1. Conditions

3.2. Rules

4. Description of the model

4.1. General structure

4.2. Particular structures of the item of type F for a directive

4.3. Particular structure of the item of type P

5. An alternative solution

6. Conclusion

Denial and presupposition

1. Denials as negative assertions

2. Denial as corrections of contextual information

3. Shifting denotations

4. Dialogue models

5. Objecting to implicatures and presuppositions

6. Suspension by local accommodation

7. Two linguistic generalizations

8. Conclusion

Between binding and accommodation

2. What is bridging?

3. Approaches to bridging

3.1. Lexical or encyclopedic based approaches

3.2. Functional based approaches.

3.3. Empirical work

4. Spoken language corpus data

4.1. Multiple potential anchors for many bridging NPs available and perceived

4.2. Multiple links possible to the same anchor

4.3. Not all theoretically possible links are perceived

5. Discussion

6. Conclusions

Theories of presuppositions and presuppositional clitics

Introduction

Part I

1.1. Presupposition

1.2. Speaker's presuppositions or speaker/hearer presuppositions?

1.3. Compositionality

1.4. Presupposition projection

1.5. The simplest proposal

1.6. Gazdar's (1979) proposal

1.7. Chierchia &amp

McConnell-Ginet (2000)

1.8. van der Sandt (1992)

1.9. Some interesting examples by van der Sandt

Part II

2.1. Presuppositional clitics: The problem

2.2. Some further data

2.3. A problem

2.4. Semantics or pragmatics?

2.5. Modal subordination

2.6. The implicature analysis

Conclusion

Semantic meaning and four types of speech act

1. The general assumption of semantic meaning

2. Generics

3. Referential use and attributive use

4. A-type and B-type utterances

5. Four different speech acts in Austin (1953)

6. Different sentence meanings as different speech acts

7. Conclusion

Generalised and particularised implicatures of linguistic politeness

2. Ambivalent vs. indirect utterances and conventionalisation of form

3. Calculating implicatures of politeness

3.1. When the speaker's utterance is indirect

3.2. When the speaker's utterance is ambivalent &amp

not conventionalised for some use

3.3. When the speaker's utterance is conventionalised for some use &amp

used in the context relative to which it is conventionalised.

3.4. When the speaker's utterance is conventionalised for some use and used in a context other than that relative to which it is conventionalised

Models of intentions in language

Particular models of intention from Gibbs

A single adequate model of intention in language

A set of attributes of intentions

A note about persistent intentions

Intentions in philosophy and linguistics

Context-dependent interpretation and implicit dialogue acts

2. Information states and update scenarios

3. Incremental updates and context accommodation

4. Formalising the update model

5. Summary

Notes on analysing context

2. Problems in analysing context

2.1. Context of text

2.2. Context of situation

2.3. Summary

3. An approach to analyzing context

3.1. Displays of understanding

3.2. Deviant case analysis

3.3. Controlling the situation

3.4. Availability of further resources

4. Example analysis: Instantiating Clark's typology of common ground

4.1. Data

4.2. Types of common ground attended to in the data

5. Conclusions and prospects

A basic system for multimodal robot instruction

2. Human-humanoid interaction

3. Scenario for practical evaluation

4. Dialogue control in action

4.1. Experimental setup

4.2. Sample dialogue and results

5. Conclusions

An information state approach in a multi-modal dialogue system for human-robot conversation

2. Dialogues with mobile robots

3. Dialogue processing

3.1. Interpretation and generation

4. Information states

4.1. Processing

4.2. Example dialogue rules

6. Recent and future work

References.

Dialogue understanding in dynamic domains

1.1. Automata based approaches

1.2. Detailed approaches on discourse analysis

1.3. Scope of this paper

1.4. System architecture

1.5. An example dialogue

2. Modelling the application domain

2.1. Deriving domain models from interface definitions

2.2. Intension

2.3. Extension

3. Modelling the beliefs of dialogue participants

3.1. Belief structures

3.2. Aligning the belief structures

3.3. Deriving intentions and linguistic means of communication from belief structures

4. Integration of discourse and application

4.1. Computing coherence and discourse relations between utterances

4.2. Incorporating pragmatic actions into discourse structure

5. Updating belief structures

5.1. Conditions for grounding utterances

5.2. Operations on belief updates

6. Continuation of incoherent dialogues

7. Conclusions

7.1. Comparison to static approaches on dialogue

7.2. Rational interaction

An information state update approach to collaborative negotiation

1.1. The concept of negotiation

2. Sidner's artificial negotiation language

2.1. Negotiation language constructs

2.2. Application of Sidner's theory to real dialogue

2.3. Three problematic issues in Sidner's approach

3. Analysing Sidner's language using the information state update approach

3.1. The GoDiS information state

3.2. Conditions &amp

effects and optimism &amp

pessimism in GoDiS

3.3. Negotiation of alternatives in GoDiS

4. Conclusions

Resolving Underspecification using Discourse Information

2. Theoretical Background

2.1. SDRT

2.2. Approximation

3. The system

3.1. Overview

3.2. Highlights of a few worked examples

4. Related work

5. Conclusion.

Acknowledgements

On coordinating interpretations - optimality and rational interaction

2. Bi-OT on coordination

3. Interpretation and accommodation

4. Dialogues as multi-agent systems and joint projects

5. Coordination of interpretation

The interpretation level

The update level

Pragmatic constraints

Mattausch's Example reconsidered

6. Bi-OT reconsidered

7. Summary

Modal particles and the common ground

2. The basic meaning of ja, doch, eben/halt and auch

2.1. ja

2.2. doch

2.3. eben, halt

2.4. auch

3. Interaction with context

3.1. Modal particles and speech acts

3.2. Modal particles and discourse functions

4. Summary and conclusions

(Non-)Temporal concepts conveyed by before, after, and then in dialogue

2. Formal analyses for before, after, and then

2.1. Unrestricted temporal precedence

2.2. Proximality

2.3. Presupposition

2.4. Immediate successor

2.5. Combined semantics

3. Corpora investigations

3.1. Unrestricted temporal precedence

3.2. Proximality

3.3. Immediacy

3.4. Explicit length of time

4.1. Combining formal semantics and corpus studies

4.2. Future investigation

Name index

Subject index

The PRAGMATICS AND BEYOND NEW SERIES.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612160950

9781282160958

1282160958

9789027296184

9027296189

OCLC:

55664362