The paper discusses the role of speech in the generation of psychosis. The traditional phenomenological approach describes schizophrenic speech as desocialized, autistic and destructive. Based on 'Speech Act Theory', we argue that patients in an acute psychotic state assign maximal illocutionary force to their utterances and mark these speech acts as felicitous. We hypothesize that the pragmati...

Dialog acts represent the illocutionary aspect of the communication; depending on the nature of the dialog and its participants, different types of dialog act occur and an accurate classification of these is essential to support the understanding of human conversations. We learn effective discriminative dialog act classifiers by studying the most predictive classification features on Human-Huma...

This is a highly condensed version of a paper [1] that presents automated methods to accurately transform regulations with bulleted lists into sets of complete sentences that include their proper context. We discuss the technical challenges addressed, including extracting intended structure from HTML documents, and correctly distributing preambles over nested text. Our work has been used to pre...

In this paper, we address two questions concerning negative imperatives in Korean: . (i) what is the morpho-syntactic nature of mal in negative imperatives?; and (ii) why is it impossible to form negative imperatives with short negation an? We will argue that the clause structure of imperatives include a projection of deontic modality and a projection of imperative operator encoding illocutiona...

The research reported here is part of an ongoing eeort to design systems which can automatically generate integrated text and information graphics presentations. We are investigating the integration of two complementary approaches: hierarchical planning and task-based graphic design. A hierarchical planner is used to construct a media-independent plan of illocutionary actions which are ultimate...

A number of researchers have investigated the use of planbased approaches to generate textual explanations (e.g., Appelt 1985; Hovy 1988; Moore 1989; Maybury 1990b). This paper extends this approach to generate multimedia explanations by defining three types of communicative acts: linguistic acts (illocutionary and locutionary speech acts), visual acts (e.g., deictic acts), and mediaindependent...

This paper is aimed at revealing the inner structures of intentions of speech through demonstrating a method of parsing intentions of speech. The intentions of speech are parsed separately, which is inspired by Searle’s notation ( ) . In this research, both the propositional content and the illocutionary forces are represented as semantic frames, the categories of which are combined together wi...

This paper presents a theoretical approach to the characterization of requests boundaries and structure in general spoken dialogue. Emphasis is laid on the fracture between the illocutionary act of requesting (for which the term ‘request’ is kept) and the locutionary elements that carry it out (its ‘instantiation’). This approach leads to a representation of requests based on the inclusion of a...

The research aimed to determine the sorts and most prevalent illocutionary acts used by characters in Brave animated movie. act was defined as purpose for which speaker utters something. focused on main character entire conversation between each applied a qualitative method where data were taken from script uttered all of movie who acts. collection technique done five steps; made analyzing form...

The article introduces the concept of illocutionary pragmatic adaptation (IPA) as a local translation aimed at replacing, de-intensifying or strengthening modality in Ukrainian translations English-language soft law texts. idea IPA is based on premises forces–modality correlation, their graded nature added by adaptation, its types, criteria, and strategies. Basic means include shall-associated ...