The purpose of this study was to look at headline writers’ intentions from Tanzanian Nipashe newspapers and classify them in accordance with illocutionary speech acts Taxonomy by Searle (1979). employed a qualitative research approach descriptive design. involved the population 1095 front-page newspaper headlines. A sample 130 headlines chosen each classified according taxonomy Speech Act. Out ...

The Dialog State Tracking Challenge 4 (DSTC 4) proposes several pilot tasks. In this paper, we focus on the spoken language understanding pilot task, which consists of tagging a given utterance with speech acts and semantic slots. We compare different classifiers: the best system obtains 0.52 and 0.67 F1-scores on the test set for speech act recognition for the tourist and the guide respectivel...

This work aims to analyze the influence of adjective phrases in small talk on purchasing decision Badung traditional market. Data were analyzed using measures adapted from Creswell (2007). In analyzing data is based classification apologies, condole, congratulate, greet, thanks, bid, accept, and reject speech functions. As a result, most sellers market did not use decisions. They have various s...