Modelling illocutionary structure: Combining empirical studies with formal model analysis

Hui Shi; Robert J. Ross; Thora Tenbrink; John Bateman

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12116-6_28

Modelling illocutionary structure: Combining empirical studies with formal model analysis

Hui Shi, Robert J. Ross, Thora Tenbrink, John Bateman

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In this paper we revisit the topic of dialogue grammars at the illocutionary force level and present a new approach to the formal modelling, evaluation and comparison of these models based on recursive transition networks. Through the use of appropriate tools such finitestate grammars can be formally analysed and validated against empirically collected corpora. To illustrate our approach we show: (a) the construction of human-human dialogue grammars on the basis of recently collected natural language dialogues in joint-task situations; and (b) the evaluation and comparison of these dialogue grammars using formal methods. This work provides a novel basis for developing and evaluating dialogue grammars as well as for engineering corpus-tailored dialogue managers which can be verified for adequacy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 11th International Conference, CICLing 2010, Proceedings
Pages	340-353
Number of pages	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12116-6_28
Publication status	Published - 2010
Externally published	Yes
Event	11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2010 - Iasi, Romania Duration: 21 Mar 2010 → 27 Mar 2010

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	6008 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

Conference

Conference	11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2010
Country/Territory	Romania
City	Iasi
Period	21/03/10 → 27/03/10

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Shi, H., Ross, R. J., Tenbrink, T., & Bateman, J. (2010). Modelling illocutionary structure: Combining empirical studies with formal model analysis. In Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 11th International Conference, CICLing 2010, Proceedings (pp. 340-353). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6008 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12116-6_28

Shi, Hui ; Ross, Robert J. ; Tenbrink, Thora et al. / Modelling illocutionary structure : Combining empirical studies with formal model analysis. Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 11th International Conference, CICLing 2010, Proceedings. 2010. pp. 340-353 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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Shi, H, Ross, RJ, Tenbrink, T & Bateman, J 2010, Modelling illocutionary structure: Combining empirical studies with formal model analysis. in Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 11th International Conference, CICLing 2010, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), vol. 6008 LNCS, pp. 340-353, 11th International Conference on Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing, CICLing 2010, Iasi, Romania, 21/03/10. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12116-6_28

Modelling illocutionary structure: Combining empirical studies with formal model analysis. / Shi, Hui; Ross, Robert J.; Tenbrink, Thora et al.
Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 11th International Conference, CICLing 2010, Proceedings. 2010. p. 340-353 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6008 LNCS).

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Shi H, Ross RJ, Tenbrink T, Bateman J. Modelling illocutionary structure: Combining empirical studies with formal model analysis. In Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Text Processing - 11th International Conference, CICLing 2010, Proceedings. 2010. p. 340-353. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)). doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-12116-6_28

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