{"pk":30554,"title":"Parsing and Generating the Pragmatics of Natural Language Utterances Using Metacommunication","subtitle":null,"abstract":"This paper reports a new theory of natural language processing and its implementation in a computerprogram, DIALS (for DIALogue Structures). This represents a radical departure from the paradigmaticapproach to natural language processing currently dominating the Helds of artificial intelligence, linguistics,and language philosophy, among others. W e use the theory of metacommunication to develop a\"pragmatic grammar\" for the structural analysis of dialogue. W e are currently able to parse and generateover 5000 surface forms of a single underlying request content. W e propose using this pragmatic informationto manage the communication context, including inferring some of a speakers' goals and controllingstatus and politeness.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"discourse analysis"},{"word":"Pragmatics"},{"word":"metacommunication"},{"word":"requests"}],"section":"Linguistics I","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9939c2m5","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"David","middle_name":"L.","last_name":"Sanford","name_suffix":"","institution":"Virginia Tech","department":""},{"first_name":"J.","middle_name":"W.","last_name":"Roach","name_suffix":"","institution":"Virginia Tech","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"1987-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/30554/galley/20403/download/"}]}