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Phonetic features are indispensable in understanding the spoken language. Especially in Korean, which is wh-in-situ and head-final, the addressee of spoken language sometimes finds it hard to discern the speaker’s original intention if not provided with ...

During the development of social media, there has been a transformation in social communication. Despite their positive applications in social interactions and news spread, it also provides an ideal platform for spreading rumors. Rumors can endanger the ...

This article presents rule-based and statistical-based techniques for Arabic speech act recognition. The proposed techniques classify an utterance into Arabic speech act categories based on three criteria: surface features, cue words, and contextual ...

We can observe the rapid development of the spoken human-machine interface, thanks to the big progress in automatic recognition and text to speech technologies. Especially, the mobile virtual assistants are becoming more popular than ever. Recognizing ...

This special issue introduction explores the need to study information systems as symbolic action systems, defines broadly the research domain and related assumptions, notes the origins of this perspective, articulates its key lines of study, and ...

In intelligent tutoring systems with natural language dialogue, speech act classification, the task of detecting learners' intentions, informs the system's response mechanism. In this paper, we propose supervised machine learning models for speech act ...

This paper extends a novel technique for the classification of sentences as Dialogue Acts, based on structural information contained in function words. Initial experiments on classifying questions in the presence of a mix of straightforward and "...

This paper extends a novel technique for the classification of short texts as Dialogue Acts, based on structural information contained in function words. It investigates the new challenge of discriminating between instructions and a non-instruction mix ...

This paper presents a novel technique for the classification of sentences as Dialogue Acts, based on structural information contained in function words. It focuses on classifying questions or non-questions as a generally useful task in agent-based ...

In this work we have developed a formal ontology for perdurants suitable for representing interlocking institutional worlds in the general area of interoperating information systems. The formal ontology is a specialization of the perdurant elements of ...

In this work we have developed a formal ontology for perdurants suitable for representing interlocking institutional worlds in the general area of interoperating information systems. The formal ontology is a specialization of the perdurant elements of ...

The construction of androids as human-like robots depends on the presupposition of being able to interact, communicate and cooperate with humans in order to achieve satisfying results. Realizing these tasks means taking the challenge seriously. This is ...

We propose an approach to overcome cultural barriers, specifically pragmatic misunderstandings about the intention of the speaker by annotating domain specific language resources according to an ontology based on speech acts. These annotations are ...

A conversational interface must extract information from texts transcribed by a speech recognizer and utilize the information for various kinds of applications. We propose a method for detecting topic and speech act type of an utterance as a fundamental ...

Although social research into group interaction has flourished since the 20th century, the technology of embodied conversational agents for handling multiparty interaction is still immature. In view of this, we aim at designing agent systems to support ...

In a spoken dialog system, it is an important problem for the computer to identify the speech act (SA) from a user's utterance due to the variability of spoken language. In this paper, a corpus-based fuzzy fragment-class Markov model (FFCMM) is proposed ...

All major proposals in the field of Agent Communication Languages deal with agent communication in terms of speech acts. This choice is important not only because it allows one to rely on a powerful and deep theory of communication, namely Speech Act ...

In this paper we propose an operational method to express the meaning of the messages exchanged among agents that interact in open environments. In an open environment, like for example the Internet, agents are usually designed by different constructors,...

Intelligent help systems cannot merely respond passively to the user's commands and queries. They need to be able to volunteer information, correct user misconceptions, and reject unethical requests when appropriate. In order to do these things, a system ...

Adopting three kinds of speech acts: request, promise, and inform, this paper analyses the interaction among aents in a kind of multi-agent systems with requirements/services cooperation style (MAS_r-s). The paper gives the objective model the ...