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From Utterances to Speech Acts

By Mikhail Kissine

"Kissine offers a new theory of speech acts which is philosophically sophisticated and builds on work in cognitive science, formal semantics, and linguistic typology. This highly readable, brilliant essay is a major contribution to the field."

--François Recanati, Institut Jean-Nicod

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Title: Modeling Sociocultural phenomena in discourse
Author: George Aaron Broadwell
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Institution: University at Albany, State University of New York
Author: Jennifer Stromer-Galley
Institution: University at Albany - SUNY
Author: Tomek Strzalkowski
Institution: University at Albany, State University of New York
Author: Samira Shaikh
Institution: University at Albany - SUNY
Author: Sarah Taylor
Institution: Lockheed Martin Corporation
Author: Ting Liu
Institution: University at Albany - SUNY
Author: Umit Boz
Institution: University at Albany - SUNY
Author: Alan Elia
Institution: University at Albany - SUNY
Author: Laura Jiao
Institution: University at Albany - SUNY
Author: Nick Webb
Institution: University at Albany - SUNY
Linguistic Field: Computational Linguistics
Abstract: In this paper, we describe a novel approach to computational modeling and understanding of social and cultural phenomena in multi-party dialogues. We developed a two-tier approach in which we first detect and classify certain sociolinguistic behaviors, including topic control, disagreement, and involvement, that serve as first-order models from which presence the higher level social roles, such as leadership, may be inferred.

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This article appears in Natural Language Engineering Vol. 19, Issue 2, which you can read on Cambridge's site or on LINGUIST .



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