{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Pragmatics In Speech Understanding","authors":[{"name":"Bertram C. Bruce","slug":"bertram-c-bruce","given":"Bertram C.","family":"Bruce","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"When a person speaks he is using words to achieve a goal, whether that be to gain information, to threaten, to promise, or to reassure. Recognition of that goal is an essential part of speech understanding, both in determining what was said and in deciding what was meant. The term \"pragmatics\" is used here to mean the procedure which applies knowledge about the speaker, the previous dialogue, and the domain of discourse · to interpret utterances and respond appropriately. This procedure invokes definitions of intents (speech acts) and modes of interactiOn--to recognize the gear- 0! a speaker and consequently to understand his utterance.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/73","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/0073.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/73.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/bibtex/73","volume":{"slug":"1975","title":"Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1975","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/","year":1975,"location":"Tbilisi, Georgia, USSR","dates":"","editors":"Patrick Winston and Carl Hewitt","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"Speech Understanding","track":"Speech Understanding","number":73,"pages":{"first":461,"last":466},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[{"position":1,"raw":"Bruce, B., \"Case Systems for Natural Language,\" BBN Report No. 3010, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, Mass., (1975).","title":"Case Systems for Natural Language","authors":"B Bruce","year":"1975","venue":null,"doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":2,"raw":"Bruce, B. \"Belief Systems and Language Understanding,\" BBN Report No. 2973, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, Ma. (1975).","title":"Belief Systems and Language Understanding","authors":"B Bruce","year":"1975","venue":null,"doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":3,"raw":"Bruce, B. and C.F. Schmidt, \"Episode Understanding and Belief Guided Parsing,\" Computer Science Department, Rutgers University, NIH Re~ort, CBM-TR-32 (1974).","title":"Episode Understanding and Belief Guided Parsing","authors":"B Bruce, C F Schmidt","year":"1974","venue":null,"doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":4,"raw":"Deutsch, Barbara G., \"The Structure of Task Oriented Dialogs,\" IEEE Symposium on Speech Recognition, (1974).","title":"The Structure of Task Oriented Dialogs","authors":"Barbara G Deutsch","year":"1974","venue":"IEEE Symposium on Speech Recognition","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":5,"raw":"Schmidt, C.F., \"Recognizing Plans and Purposes,\" Computer Science Department, Rutgers University, NIH Report, CBM-TR-34 (1974).","title":"Recognizing Plans and Purposes","authors":"C F Schmidt","year":"1974","venue":null,"doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":6,"raw":"Searle, J.R., Spefch Acts: An Essa~ in ~ ~~ £__ La T i e -;-cambr 1dge Un1vers1ty Press, Cam ri ge, England (1969).","title":"Spefch Acts: An Essa~ in ~ ~~ £__ La T i e -;-cambr 1dge Un1vers1ty Press","authors":"J R Searle","year":"1969","venue":null,"doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":7,"raw":"Searle, J.R., (Ed.) The.Philosophy of Lan,uage, Oxford Un1vers1ty Press (19 2).","title":"The.Philosophy of Lan,uage","authors":null,"year":null,"venue":"Oxford Un1vers1ty Press","doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null},{"position":8,"raw":"Woods, W.~., M. Bates, B. Bruce, J. Colarusso, c. Cook, L. Gould, D. Grabel, J. Makhoul, B. Nash-Webber, R. Schwartz and ,J. Wolf, \"Natural Communications with Com~ut•rs Pinal Report -Volume I Speech Understanding Research at BBN,\" BBN Report No. 2976, Bolt Beranek and Newman Inc., Cambridge, Ma. (1974).","title":"Natural Communications with Com~ut•rs Pinal Report -Volume I Speech Understanding Research at BBN","authors":"W ~ Woods, M Bates, B Bruce, J Colarusso, L Cook, D Gould, J Grabel, B Makhoul, R Nash-Webber, J Schwartz, Wolf","year":"1974","venue":null,"doi":null,"url":null,"internal_url":null}],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}