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Searle's great contribution to speech acts was his attempt to define formally the conditions under which different kinds of illocutionary acts are performed.
Searle's great contribution to speech acts was his attempt to define formally the conditions under which different kinds of illocutionary acts are performed. In other words he tried to define the context that makes speech acts succeed. The conditions he specified involve knowing the conventions of a language, paying attention, understanding the locutionary act etc. In Section 3.4 we will look into the TRIPS system as an example of a dialogue management architecture that uses speech acts. The qualitative difference between what Searle and other people after him have done and the TRIPS approach, is the juxtaposition of linguistic clues, intentions and planning in interpreting speech acts. Planning provides the necessary context for disambiguating speech acts. The thing that brings the intentions of the speaker and planning together is speech acts (See also Section 3.4.9).
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