Texte remanié de: Thèse de doctorat--Études romanes--Aix-Marseille 1, 2003. Titre de soutenance : Du bon usage de la parole en société : le "De sermone" de Giovanni Pontano. / Mention parallèle de titre ou de responsabilité : De la conversation. Bibliogr. p. 325-336. Index.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1981. / Typescript. Vita. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 199-217).

Presented is a description of an approach to the modelling of conversation. It is suggested that to have any hope of succeeding at this endeavour, the problem must be tackled principally as a problem in pragmatics rather than as one in language analysis alone. Several pragmatic aspects of conversation are delineated and it is shown that the attempt to account for them raises a number of general issues in the representation of knowledge. A scheme for resolving some of these issues is constructed and given computational description as a set of (non-implemented) LISP-based control structures called |LISP. Central to this scheme are several different types of object that encode knowledge and communicate this knowledge by passing messages. One particular kind of object, the pattern expression (|PEXPR), turns out to be the most versatile. (|PEXPR) can encode an arbitrary amount of procedural or declarative information; are capable, as a by-product of their message passing behaviour of providing both a context for future processing decisions and a record of past processing decisions; and make contributions to the resolution of several artificial intelligence problems. A model of conversation is then proposed and some examples of typical conversations that might occur in the general context of attending a symphony concert are detailed in |LISP. It is suggested that conversation is goal oriented behaviour; and, in fact, the model is presented in terms of level of goal: from higher level non-linguistic goals through scripts directing both sides of a conversation, speech acts guiding one conversant's actions, and, finally, language level goals providing a basic parsing component for the model. In addition, a place is delineated for belief models of the conversants, necessary if utterances are to be properly understood or produced. The embedding of this kind of language model in a |LISP base yields a rich pragmatic environment for analyzing conversation. / Science, Faculty of / Computer Science, Department of / Graduate

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Duquesne University, 2005. / Title from document title page. Abstract included in electronic submission form. Includes bibliographical references (p. 156-169) and index.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Hong Kong, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-76).

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Oklahoma, 1990. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 63-66).

published_or_final_version / Linguistics / Master / Master of Arts in Applied Linguistics

published_or_final_version / abstract / toc / Linguistics / Master / Master of Arts

published_or_final_version / Linguistics / Master / Master of Philosophy

published_or_final_version / Linguistics / Master / Master of Philosophy