Speech Acts and Dialogue Management

Abstract:
In this lecture we are going to talk about the use of speech acts in dialogue management. In » Introduction to Speech Acts we will give an introduction to what speech acts are.» Speech Acts in Dialogue Management we will concentrate on how speech acts can facilitate dialogue management and » Example Dialogue Annotation Schemes will briefly consider some examples of existing dialogue act taxonimies.In » TRIPS the TRIPS system architecture will be considered. This is a system based on speech acts. Looking into it will enable an insight into how the use of speech acts can be integrated in dialogue management and taken advantage of.The practical exercise in » Practical exercise. will ask you to annotate a small dialogue excerpt in order to get better acquainted with the use of speech acts and the problems involved.

Speech Acts in Dialogue Management
In general there are certain aspects that need to be defined in order for speech acts to be used in dialogue management. Most importantly, the locutionary and perlocutionary force of utterances are always interpreted and achieved in a particular context.

Example Dialogue Annotation Schemes
In the following section we will introduce the notion of dialogue acts and briefly look at some approaches of dialogue act annotation.

TRIPS
The TRIPS system was built with an emphasis on modularity. It, therefore, consists of a number of modules that are each responsible for different tasks and inter-communicate to share the necessary information for the overall effect.

Speech Acts and Dialogue Management

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