The application of knowledge-based consultationand documentation systems is, apart from large industrial projects, often also beneficial for small to mid-sized enterprises. Yet, their design and implementation still is a tedious and costly task. We motivate, that customized UI and interaction patterns constitute a pragmatic technique for supporting especially requirements engineering, and thus ...

within the linguistic paradigm, there is a problem that was always connected with coherence conceptions of truth: how we may, in light of the evidence available to us, raise an unconditional truth claim that aims beyond what is justified. in other words, within the linguistic paradigm, if the truth of a proposition can no longer be conceived as correspondence with something in the world, then h...

In this paper we address the question of how traditional approaches to modeling world knowledge, i.e. to model shared conceptualizations of specific domains of interest via formal ontologies, can be enhanced by a pragmatic layer to solve the problem of explicating hitherto implicit information contained in the user’s utterances and to further the assistance capabilities of dialog systems and ho...

The present study investigated the effect of pragmatic eliciting tasks on EFL pre-intermediate learners speaking proficiency. Thus this study aimed at comparing the English language learners who practiced pragmatic eliciting tasks and the ones who used traditional speaking activities such as questions and answers, discussion, etc. In doing so, 40 learners out of 80 were selected through Oxford ...

We examine the potential of recurrent neural networks for handling pragmatic inferences involving complex contextual cues for the task of article usage prediction. We train and compare several variants of Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) networks with an attention mechanism. Our model outperforms a previous state-of-the-art system, achieving up to 96.63% accuracy on the WSJ/PTB corpus. In addition...

During communication, conversational partners should offer as much information as is required and relevant. For instance, the statement "Some Xs Y" is infelicitous if one knows that all Xs Y. Do children understand the link between speaker knowledge and utterance strength? In Experiment 1, 5-year-olds (N = 32) but not 4-year-olds (N = 32) reliably connected statements of different logical stren...

Owing to the growing interest in communicative, cultural and pragmatic aspects of second language learning in recent years, the present study tried to investigate representations of pragmatic aspects of English as a foreign language in Iranian high school textbooks. Using Halliday’s (1978), and Searle’s (1976) models, different language functions and speech acts were specifically determined and...

An answer mined from text collections is deemed correct if an explanation or justification is provided. Due to multiple language ambiguities, abduction, or inference to the best explanation, is a possible vehicle for such justifications. To interpret abductively an answer, world knowledge, iexico-semantic knowledge as well as pragmatic knowledge need to be integrated. This paper presents variou...

*Note. This paper was accepted for the Organization Science “Special Issue on Knowledge, Knowing, and Organizations.” Administrative constraints on issue size and timing dictated that the paper be published independently in the current issue.—Claudia Bird Schoonhoven, Editor-in-Chief Abstract This study explores the premise that knowledge in new product development proves both a barrier to and ...