This paper is an attempt to address two of the workshop themes, namely the question as to what theoretical purposes semantic contents serve, and how theories that invoke semantic contents should deal with the phenomenon of context dependence. I assume that what is at issue is the role that semantic contents play in a theory of natural language semantics. I also assume that such a theory should ...

Conversational interfaces have received much attention as a promising natural communication channel between humans and computers. A typical conversational interface consists of three major systems: speech understanding, dialog management and spoken language generation. In such a conversational interface, speech recognition as the front-end of speech understanding remains to be one of the fundam...

Conversational interfaces have received much attention as a promising natural communication channel between humans and computers. A typical conversational interface consists of three major systems: speech understanding, dialog management and spoken language generation. In such a conversational interface, speech recognition as the front-end of speech understanding remains to be one of the fundam...

This study focuses on conversational implicatures in humorous utterances. In pragmatics, implicature analysis is used to reveal the additional meaning or implied of speech conveyed by speaker. An can occur because a violation principle conversation. Conversational (especially) only appears context certain utterances and has an meaning. utterance conversation imply pragmatic function implicitly ...

A crucial factor for successful cybersecurity education is how information communicated to learners. Case-based learning of common issues has been shown improve human behaviour prevention. However, some delivery methods prevent realistic critical appraisal and reflection awareness. Conversational agents can scaffold healthcare workers’ understanding promote deterrence strategies. The challenges...

According to some pragmatists, certain conversational implicatures of an uttered sentence may be composed into the truth-conditional content of more complex constructions (e.g. conditionals or comparatives) in which that sentence is embedded. I present two arguments against this view, the one based on the intuitive (in)validity of arguments couched in natural language, the other on the (in)cohe...

This thesis examines recommendation dialogue, in the context of dialogue strategy design for conversational recommender systems. The purpose of a recommender system is to produce personalized recommendations of potentially useful items from a large space of possible options. In a conversational recommender system, this task is approached by utilizing natural language recommendation dialogue for...

In a conversational context, user converses with system through sequence of natural-language questions, i.e., utterances. Starting from given subject, the conversation evolves sequences utterances and replies. The retrieval documents relevant to an utterance is difficult due informal use natural language in speech complexity understanding semantic context coming previous We adopt 2019 TREC Conv...

This research extends our earlier work on using machine translation (MT) and word-based recurrent neural networks to augment language model training data for keyword search in conversational Cantonese speech. MT-based data augmentation is applied to two language pairs: English-Lithuanian and English-Amharic. Using filtered N-best MT hypotheses for language modeling is found to perform better th...