How to do things with words
By J. Austin. 1962
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Citations in the corpus
- Multi-Agent Cooperation and the Emergence of (Natural) Language (2016, background): “tistical associations between sequences of symbols. However, they do not capture the functional aspects of communication, i.e., that humans use words to coordinate with others and make things happen (Austin, 1962; Clark, 1996; Wittgenstein, 1953). This paper introduces the first steps of a research p”
- Recurrent Convolutional Neural Networks for Discourse Compositionality (2013, background): “A dialogue act specifies the pragmatic role of an utterance and helps identifying the speaker’s intentions (Austin, 1962; Korta and Perry, 2012).”
- Relevance of Unsupervised Metrics in Task-Oriented Dialogue for Evaluating Natural Language Generation (2017, background): “All of these models take as input a set of dialogue acts (Austin, 1962) potentially with slot types and slot values and translate this input into an utterance.”
- Survey on evaluation methods for dialogue systems (2019, methodology): “Strategy While the domain ontology defines the content of the dialogue, the strategy to fill the required slots during the conversation is modelled as a sequence of actions (Austin 1962).”
- Are There Necessary Conditions for Inducing a Sense of Sarcastic Irony? (2012, background): “Pragmatic insincerity, the second necessary component proposed by Kumon-Nakumura et al, follows from the felicity condition, originally discussed by Austin (1962) and later elaborated on by Searle (1979 ; see Colston, 2000 ).”
- Client commitment language during motivational interviewing predicts drug use outcomes. (2003, background): “Attempts to conceptualize client commitment in clinical studies share notions from speech act theory (Austin, 1962; Searle, 1969).”
- The functions of silence (2008, background): “The happiness condition (Austin, 1962) for this speech act is that the (subordinate) proposition P refers to an unlawful activity.”