How to Do Things With Words

By Csr Young. 2009

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Anticipating Safety Issues in E2E Conversational AI: Framework and Tooling (2021, background): “…(T AY ) E FFECT , the latter two scenarios are unique to conversational systems, where meaning is actively constructed in context between two or more speakers (Austin, 1962; Grice, 1975). that is: While the response of a system may not be unsafe when considered on its own, e.g., “I agree with you!””
Neural Theory-of-Mind? On the Limits of Social Intelligence in Large LMs (2022, background): “, 2005) and used (Clark, 1996) in collaborative and interactive settings (Clark and Schaefer, 1989), which allow interlocutors to give immediate feedback to each other on whether their language was understood (Clark and Krych, 2004) or should be adjusted (Krauss and Weinheimer, 1966), and observe th”
Emergence of Grounded Compositional Language in Multi-Agent Populations (2017, background): “An interest in pragmatic view of language understanding has been longstanding (Austin 1962; Grice 1975) and has recently argued for in (Gauthier and Mordatch 2016; Lake et al. 2016; Lazaridou, Pham, and Baroni 2016).”
Multi-Agent Cooperation and the Emergence of (Natural) Language (2016, background): “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).”
Survey of the State of the Art in Natural Language Generation: Core tasks, applications and evaluation (2017, background): “This perspective on nlg is therefore related to the view of ‘language as action’ (Clark, 1996), itself rooted in a philosophical tradition inaugurated by the work of Austin (1962) and Searle (1969).”
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 utter-ance.”
SafetyKit: First Aid for Measuring Safety in Open-domain Conversational Systems (2022, neutral): “We note that in contrast to the INSTIGATOR EFFECT, the YEASAYER EFFECT is unique to conversational systems, where meaning is actively constructed in context between two or more speakers (Austin, 1962; Grice, 1975): a system response may not be unsafe when considered on its own, but only when interpr”
Why we twitter: understanding microblogging usage and communities (2007, methodology): “The foundations of this work go back to Austin [2], Stawson [32] and Grice [14].”
Directives: Entitlement and contingency in action (2010, neutral): “In her important overview, that builds on Austin (1962), Blum-Kulka (1996), Ervin-Tripp (1976) and Labov and Fanshell (1977), Goodwin glosses directives as ‘utterances designed to get someone to do something’ (Goodwin, 2006: 517).”
The epistemics of student problems: Explaining mathematics in a multi-lingual class (2012, background): “Also speech-act theorists, from an equally non-empirical perspective, included knowledge distribution in their ‘happiness’ or ‘felicity’ conditions (Austin, 1962; Searle, 1969).”
"She's Always Been the Smart One. I've Always Been the Dumb One": Identities in the Mathematics Classroom (2012, background): “My emphasis is on the work accomplished through discourse during human interaction and communication (Austin, 1999; Gee, 2005; Schiffrin, 1994; This content downloaded from 198.137.20.146 on Wed, 12 Nov 2014 17:25:30 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions”
Computational Linguistics: 16th International Conference of the Pacific Association for Computational Linguistics, PACLING 2019, Hanoi, Vietnam, October 11–13, 2019, Revised Selected Papers (2019, neutral): “The term bortd is also irsed in financial and commercial circles 4”
Maternal Responsiveness and the Development of Directed Vocalizing in Social Interactions (2014, background): “Thus, vocalizations have pragmatic function, that is, perlocutionary effect (Austin, 1962), before infants develop their vocal repertoire.”
Technical knowledge, discursive spaces and politics at the science - policy interface (2013, background): “With these authors, we contend that discourses do matter exactly because they do things (Austin 1962).”
Prosody conveys speaker's intentions: Acoustic cues for speech act perception (2014, methodology): “160 The present study aimed to fill this gap by conceptualizing a speaker’s intention in terms 161 of speech acts (Austin, 1962; Holtgraves, 2002; Searle, 1969) and investigating the role of 162 prosody in decoding illocutionary force.”
Strategic Vision and Values in Top Leaders’ Communications (2015, background): “His conceptualization was an implementation of speech acts theory (Austin, 1975; Searle, 1969), which posits linguistic categories that cover almost the entire range of spoken words in acts of leadership.”