ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of J95-4001
Paper Title:
THE REPAIR OF SPEECH ACT MISUNDERSTANDINGS BY ABDUCTIVE INFERENCE
THE REPAIR OF SPEECH ACT MISUNDERSTANDINGS BY ABDUCTIVE INFERENCE
Authors: Susan W. McRoy and Graeme Hirst
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- abduction
- abductive inference
- abductive reasoning
- algorithm
- assumption-based truth-maintenance system
- axiomatization
- computational linguistics
- computer science
- conversation analysis
- decomposition
- finite state
- interfaces
- language interfaces
- linking
- natural language interfaces
- parser
- plan recognition
- processing
- processor
- prolog
- pruning
- quantification
- rating
- reasoning
- reasoning algorithm
- recognition
- recognizer
- repair
- search
- search mechanism
- searching
- sentence processing
- speech recognizer
- speech understanding
- story understanding
- theorem prover
- truth-maintenance system
- unification
Other assigned terms:
- adjacency pair
- ambiguity
- appointment scheduling
- approach
- association for computational linguistics
- axioms
- background knowledge
- break
- case
- cognitive
- coherence
- communicative interaction
- community
- concept
- conversation
- cue phrases
- derivation
- dialogue act
- dialogue model
- dialogues
- discourse
- discourse act
- discourse coherence
- discourse context
- discourse meaning
- discourse model
- domain plan
- electrical engineering
- fact
- finite state grammar
- generation
- generation system
- grammar
- grounding
- heuristic
- heuristics
- hierarchical structure
- human behavior
- human communication
- hypotheses
- hypothesis
- implementation
- indirect speech acts
- inference rule
- inference rules
- inferences
- information sources
- intention
- interpretation
- interpretation process
- interpreter
- knowledge
- knowledge structures
- leaf
- lexical item
- likelihood
- linguistic
- linguistic intention
- linguistic knowledge
- linguistic theory
- linguistics
- logic
- mapping
- meaning
- meanings
- mechanisms
- mental state
- method
- modal logic
- mood
- n-gram
- names
- natural language
- negation
- norm
- oracle
- particles
- pragmatic knowledge
- predicate calculus
- predicates
- presupposition
- presuppositions
- prioritized theorist
- probabilities
- procedure
- process
- proposition
- propositions
- prosody
- questionnaire
- recursion
- relation
- semantic
- sentence
- sentence fragment
- sentences
- signal
- speech act
- speech acts
- suffix
- surface form
- symbol
- symbols
- syntax
- syntax and semantics
- task-related plan
- taxonomy
- temporal structure
- term
- terms
- theorem
- theories
- theory
- tree
- tree structure
- tree structures
- understanding
- user
- utterance
- utterance meaning
- wh-question
- word
- words
