ILLOCUTIONARY ACTS ON PRESIDENT OBAMA’S ELECTION NIGHT SPEECH

Reference and Computational Models of Illocutionary Acts

My general goal in this paper is to explore possible relations between a cognitive analysis of the notion of reference on the one hand, and computational models of speech acts (illocutionary acts, to be precise) on the other. On the cognitive side, we have the following problem: how can thoughts (and sentences that articulate them) be about objects? The deceptive simplicity of the question mask...

Predicting U.S. president election result based on Google Insights

In this report, we used Google Insights data to predict the U.S. president election results by states. To be specific, we selected keywords closely related to the president candidates policies, and used the searching frequencies in each states during the past 12 months as our data. We applied supervised learning algorithm including Gaussian Discriminant Analysis, Support Vector Machine and Naiv...

Speech Acts On Trial

In this document we discuss the applicability of speech act theory as a theoretical foundation for the design of information technology (IT). We pay special attention to the adaptation speech act theory has undergone when applied in the IT-field. One question we address concerns what happens when we import passive descriptive theories from other disciplines and use them as a basis in active des...

Operate on Speech Acts

review of legal gap of election of lebanon president

lebanon enjoyed the constitution in 1924. in other words, this is the second country in middle east after iran which has enjoyed the constitution. lebanon is considered as the pattern of the islam world and west world which enjoys both rich culture of islam and culture and rules of west. lebanon has the distinguished status in comparison with islamic and arabic countries and the whole countries...