20.2782, Diss: Comp Ling/Discourse Analysis: Popescu: 'Formalizing Pragmatic...'

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Date: 16-Aug-2009
From: Vladimir Popescu < vladimir.popescu at univ-avignon.fr >
Subject: Formalizing Pragmatic Constraints For Utterance Generation in Multi-Party Human-Computer Dialogue
 

	
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Date: Sun, 16 Aug 2009 15:06:31
From: Vladimir Popescu [vladimir.popescu at univ-avignon.fr]
Subject: Formalizing Pragmatic Constraints For Utterance Generation in Multi-Party Human-Computer Dialogue

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Institution: Grenoble Institute of Technology (Institut National Polytechnique de Grenoble) 
Program: Mathematics-Computer Science (Mathématiques-Informatique) 
Dissertation Status: Completed 
Degree Date: 2008 

Author: Vladimir Popescu

Dissertation Title: Formalizing Pragmatic Constraints For Utterance Generation
in Multi-Party Human-Computer Dialogue (Formalisation des
contraintes pragmatiques pour la génération des énoncés en
dialogue homme-machine multi-locuteurs) 

Dissertation URL:  http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00343846/en/

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     Discourse Analysis


Dissertation Director(s):
Jean Caelen
Corneliu Burileanu

Dissertation Abstract:

We have developed a framework for controlling utterance generation in
multi-party human-computer dialogue. This process takes place in four
stages: (i) the rhetorical structure for the dialogue is computed, by using
an emulation of SDRT ('Segmented Discourse Representation Theory'); (ii)
this structure is used for computing speakers' commitments; these
commitments are used for driving the process of adjusting the illocutionary
force degree of the utterances; (iii) the commitments are filtered and
placed in a stack for each speaker; these stacks are used for performing
semantic ellipses; (iv) the discourse structure drives the choice of
concessive connectors (mais, quand même, pourtant and bien que) between
utterances; to do this, the utterances are ordered from an argumentative
viewpoint. 




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