Abduction, Belief and Context in Dialogue: Studies in Computational Pragmatics

Language is always generated and interpreted in a certain context, and the semantic, syntactic, and lexical properties of linguistic expressions reflect this. Interactive language understanding systems, such as language-based dialogue systems, therefore have to apply contextual information to interpret their inputs and to generate appropriate outputs, but are in practice very poor at this. This book contains a number of studies in Computational Pragmatics,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556197942
• ISBN13: 9781556197949
• Release Date: November 2000
• Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
• Length: 477 Pages