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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A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy By Dina Gerdeman 28 MAY 2012 RESEARCH & IDEAS : http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6994.html Abstract: Corporate social responsibility (CSR) is a corporate initiative to assess and take responsibility for the company ’s effects on the environment and impact on social welfare. CSR may also be referred to as "corporate citizenship" and can involve incurring short-term costs that do not provide an immediate financial benefit
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Pragmatic Analysis and Translation of English and Chinese Person Deixis 英汉人称指示语的语用分析及翻译 武汉理工大学外国语学院 李晓惠 广东培正学院 胡敏 广东广州 510830 内容摘要 对比语言学是一门从共时的角度对两种或多种语言进行对比研究的学科。本文尝试分析了语用学中的人称指示语在英语和汉语两种语言中的相同点和不同点，其中主要分析了人称指示语的先用特性及其反先用的用法。本文目的是通过对比分析，把指示语的语用理论更多的运用于翻译中去。 关键词: 英汉人称指示语‚ 先用与反先用现象‚ 翻译 Abstract Contrastive study is a branch of science concerning with two or more languages by exploring the differences and similarities in a synchronic way. This thesis is an attempt to analyze the
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Introduction In this paper‚ we will examine the Natural Order Hypothesis which was first introduced by Stephen Krashen in the late 1970s and 1980s. Krashen proposed the Second Language Acquisition Theory with five hypotheses. The Natural Order Hypothesis is a part of this second language theory. This hypothesis claims that learners of second language acquire the grammatical structures in a predictable way. It includes that some grammatical structures acquired naturally earlier than the others and
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Lahore School of Economics International Relations Research Paper Submitted to: Amnah Mustafa The cycle continues for the generations to come and Realism itself shall remain as one of the most effective and pragmatic approaches to International Relations. Group Members: Gohar Hayat Hiraj Ayesha Aqeel Maham Akbar Chaudhary SEC F Realism “This can be said about the generality of men: that they are ungrateful‚ fickle‚ dissembling‚ anxious to flee danger‚ and covetous of
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at the heart is the divisive question of ?whether intelligence analysis is art or science.? 14 Doctor Michael W. Collier acknowledges this issue and briefly surveys the ?art versus science? debate in his essay‚ ?Developing Intelligence Analysts: Pragmatic Tool Kit Approach?. The debate between both camps is framed as positivists‚ which promote application the scientific method‚ versus interpretists‚ which rely on qualitative research designs.15 And although each party has points to be considered
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of Pragmatic Competence through a Voice-driven Video Learning Interface"‚ the writer Gabriel Culbertson studies the effect of video learning in developing pragmatic competence through a voice-driven system based on repeating phrases out loud from any video with 27 participants‚ to show that participants use the voice-driven system more than a text-based system. In the introduction‚ the writer defines pragmatic competence‚ as sensitivity to meanings expressed by tone and word choice. Pragmatic input
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Emmanuel Kant‚ Anthropology from the pragmatic point of view (1798) This text is an extract from the Antropologie from the pragmatic point of view of Kant is about the importance of the power of saying « I » for the human subject. Indeed‚ for Kant‚ this force “raises Man on top of all other living beings”. This power is the founding of the superiority and of the dignity of Man‚ it is thanks to consciousness that Man becomes a moral being‚ in other words a being able to think himself and thus
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the field‚ it is divided into branches that consist of semantics which is the study of meaning at the level of words and concepts‚ at the second stage comes semiotics which means the use of symbols ‚images to convey meaning‚ and thirdly we have pragmatics where meaning is understood through the context. So our attempt in this essay is the study of Ezra Pound’s poem ’The Garden ’from three perspectives‚ semantically‚ semiotically and pragmatically. "The Garden" is a free verse poem written by Ezra
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Federation in Australia are both pragmatic and ideological. Outline and analyse some of those causes as a rationale for federation. The federation of Australia was the development by which the six separate British self-governing colonies of New South Wales‚ Western Australia‚ South Australia‚ Victoria‚ Tasmania and Queensland united together and formed one nation. The constitution of Australia came into force on the 1st of January 1901. There are many pragmatic and ideological reasons as to the
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