A pragmatic study of cue-based model for conversational moves interpretation

Abstract EN

In recent years, a growing interest in the area of computational pragmatics and dialogue analysis revealed initiatives in modelling pragmatic aspects of conversation.

this led to improved spoken language conversation systems, which, in turn, announces for the beginning of an era that witnesses human-computer interaction.

the major concern of the current study is to shed light on one model of interpretation in computational pragmatics, i.e.

, cue-based model.

this model will be investigated through focusing on twofold priority; the first is why it is important to interpret a conversational move for it forms a classical problem, and the other one is the model itself which is constituted of three main cues.

the three cues , the lexical , prosodic and discourse , are discussed and treated.

the idea that forms the starting point of this study is that these three cues are viewed the vehicle that leads to interpretation of ( particularly) conversational moves and by building such a model, linguistic and context information can be computed to reach the goal of using interactive computers rather than interactive human participants specifically in offices and institutions.