TY - GEN
T1 - Speech act annotation for domain specific multilingual expression services
AU - Bourdon, Julien
AU - Ishida, Toru
PY - 2008/12/1
Y1 - 2008/12/1
N2 - We propose an approach to overcome cultural barriers, specifically pragmatic misunderstandings about the intention of the speaker by annotating domain specific language resources according to an ontology based on speech acts. These annotations are capable to account for indirect speech acts as well as for phenomena of mitigation and reinforcement. The presented architecture preserves the original structure of the resource by providing metadata specified using RDF. We illustrate our purpose by a manually annotated corpus designed to facilitate interaction with foreign patients in Japanese hospitals.
AB - We propose an approach to overcome cultural barriers, specifically pragmatic misunderstandings about the intention of the speaker by annotating domain specific language resources according to an ontology based on speech acts. These annotations are capable to account for indirect speech acts as well as for phenomena of mitigation and reinforcement. The presented architecture preserves the original structure of the resource by providing metadata specified using RDF. We illustrate our purpose by a manually annotated corpus designed to facilitate interaction with foreign patients in Japanese hospitals.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISUC.2008.86
DO - 10.1109/ISUC.2008.86
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:60749109308
SN - 9780769534336
T3 - Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication, ISUC 2008
SP - 243
EP - 250
BT - Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication, ISUC 2008
T2 - 2nd International Symposium on Universal Communication, ISUC 2008
Y2 - 15 December 2008 through 16 December 2008
ER -