3.2.2 Context and Dialogue Management

The locutionary and perlocutionary force of utterances are always interpreted and achieved in a particular context.

The locutionary and perlocutionary force of utterances are always interpreted and achieved in a particular context. As far as dialogue management is concerned, that results in a need to define speech acts for different genres and take into account the characteristics of a dialogue and the specific dialogue context in which they appear. For example, different speech acts are used in a human-human than a human-computer interaction; For one, there is an increase in the need for grounding (see Section 1.1.2) in the latter. The same is true for a general conversation versus task-oriented interactions; There will be more speech acts used in the latter in order to co-ordinate the performance of the task.


Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Stephan Walter and Aljoscha Burchardt
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