PRAGMATIC INTERPRETATION AND DIALOGUE MANAGEMENT IN SPOKEN-LANGUAGE SYSTEMS Gert Veldhuijzen van Zanten Institute for Perception Research P.O.Box 513 5600 MB Eindhoven The Netherlands e-mail: veldhvz@natlab.research.philips.com ABSTRACT This paper describes the design of pragmatic-interpretation and dialogue-management modules in an automatic inquiry system that can be consulted through spoken natural language over the telephone. The system is designed around a central multi-level
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Sample Language Analysis VCAA Exam 2011 There are no existing samples of an analysis of this task as VCAA encountered some problems with copyright‚ so here goes … Background information Helen Day is a part-time journalist and blogger. She maintains her blog entitled Street beat on a variety of current social issues. This blog entry‚ The Power of Ink‚ is about tattoos and it has drawn a variety of responses from readers of her blog. In recent years‚ the practice of ‘inking’ your body‚ or having
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Ways to Learn a Second Language There are many ways a person can learn a second language. But that person has to be willing to learn. Some people want to learn fast and some people do not mind taking it slow. Learning a second language takes time. People can learn a second language by being around the native language‚ use self teaching materials‚ and by studying in a classroom. A person should choose the option that works best with the time they have and how much they want to learn. Being around
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Different Ways of Learning Languages DIFFERENT WAYS OF LEARNING LANGUAGES Being able to speak more than one language I think it’s a gift from God that not every person is blessed with. Having this gift makes me fell very special because I can travel‚ communicate‚ and understand others’ people language and culture. At a very young age I started learning French‚ German and Italian besides my native language‚ Romanian. Learning a language to me in learning how to ride a bicycle‚ once
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for God’s help and blessing but states that “on earth God’s work must truly be our own.” He refers to God in both the beginning and the end. He also addresses the citizens directly. The speech also begins by JFK saying that that a man holds the power to abolish human life and abolish all human poverty and ending by saying that failure or success rests in the hands of the citizens. What is the first appeal? Is it to logos‚ ethos‚ pathos? What are the other appeals? Which is the most dominant?
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Kuta Software - Infinite Geometry Name___________________________________ Angles in Quadrilaterals Date________________ Period____ Find the measure of each angle indicated. 1) 2) T W ? D 100° ? C 120° 100° 80° U V 95° 85° A B 3) 4) E F 65° M L ? 110° 87° D ? G J 5) K 6) L 96° K T W ? 114° 96° 86° M 68° ? V U J 7) 8) T X Q ? 105° 106° S
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BA -ELT Distance Discourse Analysis II Written and Spoken discourse December 6th‚ 2011. Written Discourse This is an analysis made to a piece of writing made by Laural Mariana Arámbula a 6th grader (elementary school) student that has very good language skills. The text she wrote will be analyzed according to the instructions of the End of Course Assignment of Discourse Analysis II and the text is named: A letter to a friend. Dear Paola Hi how are you? I hope well I wanna wish
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Does Your Language Shape How You Think? Seventy years ago‚ in 1940‚ a popular science magazine published a short article that set in motion one of the trendiest intellectual fads of the 20th century. At first glance‚ there seemed little about the article to augur its subsequent celebrity. Neither the title‚ “Science and Linguistics‚” nor the magazine‚ M.I.T.’s Technology Review‚ was most people’s idea of glamour. And the author‚ a chemical engineer who worked for an insurance company and moonlighted
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Language and power essay How do the texts attempt to influence the reader? You should refer in detail to the texts and to relevant ideas from language study Consider * Lexical and grammatical features * Graph logical features * The assumptions made about the audience Text E is a flyer published which illustrates influential power through its language choices to try and informally educate the reader of the consequences of drunk driving‚ ergo persuading them not to drink and drive
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Power: Ways to Gain and Maintain It Power is a way for people control and dominate others; it takes a lot of work to maintain and use effectively. It can take years‚ or possibly seconds to gain power of others. It all depends on the how you create that power‚ and who you are using it against. In William Shakespeare’s play The Merchant of Venice most of the characters spend the whole time trying to gain and maintain power. The play is about a Jewish moneylender named Shylock lending money to a merchant
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