Optimism is growing that the near future will witness rapid growth in human-computer
interaction using voice. System prototypes have recently been built that demonstrate …

Recognizing the actions, plans, and goals of a person in an unconstrained environment is a
key feature that future robotic systems will need in order to achieve a natural human …

Deciphering consumers' sentiment expressions from big data (eg, online reviews) has
become a managerial priority to monitor product and service evaluations. However …

This volume brings together two highly researched but also highly controversial concepts,
those of politeness and implicature. A theory of implicature as social action and …

This paper explores principles governing the rational balance among an agent's beliefs,
goals, actions, and intentions. Such principles provide specifications for artificial agents, and …

An introduction to the linguistic study of meaning, this book outlines the meaning potential
(semantics) of English and how language knowledge is put to use (pragmatics). As well as …

How do hearers manage to understand speakers? And how do speakers manage to shape
hearers' understanding? Lepore and Stone show that standard views about the workings of …

This book differs from other introductions to pragmatics in approaching the problems of
interpreting language use in terms of interpersonal modelling of beliefs and intentions. It is …

Candidate answers responsive to a user query are analyzed using a natural language
engine to determine appropriate answers from an electronic database. The system and meth …

Plan recognition, activity recognition, and intent recognition together combine and unify
techniques from user modeling, machine vision, intelligent user interfaces, human/computer …