Identifying the User's Intentions: Basic Illocutions in Modern Greek



Document title: Identifying the User's Intentions: Basic Illocutions in Modern Greek
Journal: Polibits
Database: PERIÓDICA
System number: 000355982
ISSN: 1870-9044
Authors: 1
Institutions: 1University of Westminster, School of Electronics and Computer Science, Londres. Reino Unido
Year:
Number: 44
Country: México
Language: Inglés
Document type: Artículo
Approach: Aplicado, descriptivo
English abstract This paper presents a comprehensive classification of basic illocutions in Modern Greek, extracted following the linguistic choices speakers make when they formulate an utterance, provided such choices form part of a language's grammar. Our approach lies on the interface between Morphosyntax, Pragmatics and Phonology and allows for basic illocutions to be established depending on the particular verb mood, particle, number, person, aspect and segmental marker, as well as the prosodic contour used when an utterance is realized. Our results show that Indicative uses, for example, are mostly associated with propositional illocutions, consisting of declarative uses, including assertions, miratives, and assertions in disguise; interrogative uses, including polar and content interrogatives; and behavioral illocutions i.e. exhortations (expressed in first person plural only). Secondary sentence types, (involving additional segmental marking) include requests for confirmation, wondering, expression of uncertainty and proffer. In this paper we discuss propositional uses only. Such a theoretical approach can have a direct impact on applications involving Human–Computer Interaction, including intention–based dialogue systems' modeling, natural language interfaces to Data Bases and Intelligent Agents as well as Belief, Desire and Intention systems, which require the computer to be able to interpret what a user's objective (intention) is, so that the users' needs can be best served
Disciplines: Ciencias de la computación
Keyword: Inteligencia artificial,
Lingüística aplicada,
Pragmatismo,
Morfosintaxis,
Griego moderno
Keyword: Computer science,
Artificial intelligence,
Applied linguistics,
Pragmatics,
Morphosyntax,
Greek language
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