ACL RD-TEC 1.0 Summarization of H89-2052
Paper Title:
USING STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS FOR SPEECH ACT INTERPRETATION
USING STRUCTURAL CONSTRAINTS FOR SPEECH ACT INTERPRETATION
Authors: James F. Allen and Elizabeth Hinkelman
Primarily assigned technology terms:
- algorithm
- classification
- commonlisp
- computational system
- computer science
- computing
- decomposition
- dialog systems
- domain reasoning
- heuristic plan recognition
- incremental unification
- interpretation system
- knowledge representation
- knowledge representation system
- language learning
- language learning and processing
- language understanding
- language understanding system
- learning
- linguistic processing
- man-machine dialog
- matching
- natural language understanding
- natural language understanding system
- optimization
- paraphrasing
- parser
- parsing
- phrasing
- plan inference
- plan reasoning
- plan recognition
- processing
- question interpretation
- reading
- reasoning
- reasoning system
- recognition
- recognition systems
- semantic interpreter
- speech act interpretation
- speech act recognition
- structure matching
- temporal reasoning
- tree unification
- unification
- unification algorithm
Other assigned terms:
- ambiguity
- approach
- auxiliary verbs
- case
- computational model
- contextual processing
- dialog
- discourse
- discourse situation
- fact
- heuristic
- heuristics
- hypothesis
- implementation
- indirect speech act
- indirect speech acts
- inference component
- inheritance
- intention
- interpretation
- interpretation process
- interpretation rules
- interpreter
- intonation
- knowledge
- knowledge base
- language information
- lattice
- lattice structure
- lexical items
- lexical rule
- linguistic
- linguistics
- lisp
- literal translation
- logic
- logical form
- mapping
- mapping rules
- meaning
- meanings
- mood
- natural language
- paraphrase
- paraphrases
- phrase
- process
- propositional content
- prosody
- punctuation
- representation system
- representations
- semantic
- semantic interpretation
- semantic structure
- sentence
- sentences
- speech act
- speech act theory
- speech acts
- spoken language
- structure of the sentence
- subclass
- syntactic form
- syntactic structure
- syntax
- syntax and semantics
- system organization
- technique
- terms
- text
- theory
- tree
- tree structures
- understanding
- utterance
- verb
- verb phrase
- word
- words
