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Power, Richard J.D. 1984. Some applications of artificial intelligence planning theory in discourse analysis. In D'Urso, Valentina and Paolo Leonardi, eds. Discourse analysis and natural rhetorics. Cleup editore. pp. 59–66.
Publication type
Article in book
Publication language
English
Keywords
appropriateness | artificial intelligence | communicative failure | discourse analysis | indirect speech act | inference | planning | requesting

Annotation

With reference to an example of an artificial intelligence speech act plan (for requests), it is shown that AI can help to explain (i) preparatory utterances, (ii) the repair of conversational breakdowns, (iii) felicity conditions on speech acts, (iv) listeners inferences, (v) speaker inferences, and (vi) indirect speech acts.