Pragmatic Rejection
Year: 2015
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Computationally detecting the accepting/rejecting force of an utterance in dialogue is often a complex process.In this paper we focus on a class of utterances we call pragmatic rejections, whose rejection force arises only by pragmatic means.We define the class of pragmatic rejections, present a novel corpus of such utterances, and introduce a formal model to compute what we call rejectionsby-implicature.To investigate the perceived rejection force of pragmatic rejections, we conduct a crowdsourcing experiment and compare the experimental results to a computational simulation of our model.Our results indicate that models of rejection should capture partial rejection force.* The research presented in this paper has been funded by the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007
Authors: Julian J. Schlöder, Raquel Fernández
Language: English
Topic: Speech and dialogue systems
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2296190870