Communication is a process aimed at agreement on some situation definition. When the agreement is not immediate, a discussion is needed to resolve the points of disagreement using argumentation. Although such a discussion is recognized in the LAP approaches, no formal treatment of it has been given so far. In this paper, we introduce a formal model based on recent results from argumentation the...

Put in a nutshell, the following view of the nature of communicative action seems worth considering. Communication presupposes a framework of mutual knowledge (at least mutual true beliefs) and assumptions about language (or whatever representational system is used). This underlying level need not contain any knowledge or assumptions about the goals of the users of language, in particular no as...

This paper presents a corpus-based approach to communicative speech synthesis. We chose “good news” style and “bad news” style for our initial attempt to synthesize speech that has appropriate expressiveness desired in human-human or human-machine dialog. We utilized 10-hour “neutral” style speech corpus as well as smaller corpora with good news and bad news styles, each consisting of two to th...

Adults and 12-month-old infants recognize that even unfamiliar speech can communicate information between third parties, suggesting that they can separate the communicative function of speech from its lexical content. But do infants recognize that speech can communicate due to their experience understanding and producing language, or do they appreciate that speech is communicative earlier, with...

BACKGROUND Beyond providing cues about an agent's intention, communicative actions convey information about the presence of a second agent towards whom the action is directed (second-agent information). In two psychophysical studies we investigated whether the perceptual system makes use of this information to infer the presence of a second agent when dealing with impoverished and/or noisy sens...

if the target of foreign language teaching is to use the language, communicative language teaching (clt) seems to be an ideal teaching model. the goal of teaching with this method is to use the language as a medium of communication (adi, 2012).the application of the communicative approach in teaching english as a foreign language, however, is associated with some problems that can cause the met...