This book is an investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals the speaker has in mind. It is thus an ambitious and significant contribution to research on language generation in artificial intelligence, which has previously concentrated in the main on the problem of translation from an internal semantic representation into the target language. Dr. Appelt's approach, based on a possible-worlds semantics of an intensional logic of knowledge and action, enables him to develop a formal representation of the effects of illocutionary acts and the speaker's beliefs about the hearer's knowledge of the world. The theory is embodied and illustrated in a computer system, KAMP (Knowledge and Modalities Planner), described in the book. Dr. Appelt's work thus has important applications to the design of interactive computer systems, multiagent planning systems and the planning of knowledge acquisition.
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This book is an investigation into the problems of generating natural language utterances to satisfy specific goals in the speaker's mind. It is thus an ambitious and significant contribution to research on language generation in artificial intelligence.
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A primary goal of natural-language generation research in artificial intelligence is to design a system that is capable of producing utterances with the same fluency as that of a human speaker. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
utterance planner, surface speech act, subsumption critic, utterance planning system, action subsumption, procedural net, referent feature, satisfy multiple goals, particular illocutionary act, universal preconditions, planning utterances, informing action, intensional concepts, linguistic actions, frame axioms, illocutionary acts, unification grammar, activation actions, indirect speech acts, intensional objects, intensional operators, perlocutionary effects, linguistic realization, concept activation, goal nodes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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A primary goal of natural-language generation research in artificial intelligence is to design a system that is capable of producing utterances with the same fluency as that of a human speaker. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
utterance planner, surface speech act, subsumption critic, utterance planning system, action subsumption, procedural net, referent feature, satisfy multiple goals, particular illocutionary act, universal preconditions, planning utterances, informing action, intensional concepts, linguistic actions, frame axioms, illocutionary acts, unification grammar, activation actions, indirect speech acts, intensional objects, intensional operators, perlocutionary effects, linguistic realization, concept activation, goal nodes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language by John R. Searle in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Reference and Modality (Readings in Philosophy Series) by Leonard Linsky in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Philosophy of Language (Ox Readings Philosophy Series) by John R. Searle in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Reversible Grammar in Natural Language Processing (The Springer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science) by T. Strzalkowski on page 93, page 127, and page 409
- Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 28 (Supplement 7) (Microcomputers Encyclopedia) by Allen Kent on page 250, and page 254
- Distributed Artificial Intelligence: Volume II (Research Notes in Artificial Intelligenc) by Les Gasser on page 33, and page 135
- Situation Theory and Its Applications, Volume 2 (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes) by Jon Barwise on page 447
- Memory-Based Language Processing (Studies in Natural Language Processing) by Walter Daelemans in Front Matter
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