Parsing meta-communicational statements in dialogues: a computational model

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dc.contributor.authorBouzid, Ahmed T.en
dc.contributor.committeechairRoach, John W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberFox, Edward A.en
dc.contributor.committeememberMcKeon, Donald W.en
dc.contributor.departmentComputer Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:42:57Zen
dc.date.adate2009-08-18en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:42:57Zen
dc.date.issued1991-01-03en
dc.date.rdate2009-08-18en
dc.date.sdate2009-08-18en
dc.description.abstractPrevalent in dialogues are communications about the activity of talking itself. Examination of dyadic conversations readily shows the ubiquity of statements such as "Okay," "Well," "You know," indicating that in natural, spontaneous talk people are often concerned with the process of talking as well as with the content of their talk. In an analysis of a corpus of twenty seven transcribed telephone conversations (80 minutes of continuous talk). we found that such statements occur with an average frequency of 1.49 per conversational turn, and that a turn free of such statements is rare. A verbal expression focusing on the activity of talking we term a meta-statement. In this thesis, we present a model of meta-statements. We propose that metastatements are pragmatic units of talk used to regulate and maintain the conversational contexts shared by interactants. More specifically, we hypothesize that to determine the "meaning" of meta-statements, six aspects of a conversation's context must be modeled: the rhetorical, conversational, interpersonal. emotional, cognitive, and communicational aspects. We specify these models in what follows and outline the components of a conversational system that is able to parse the meaning of meta-statements.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extentxviii, 347 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-08182009-040338en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-08182009-040338/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/44275en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1991.B679.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 24036906en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1991.B679en
dc.subject.lcshCommunication -- Researchen
dc.subject.lcshUser interfaces (Computer systems)en
dc.titleParsing meta-communicational statements in dialogues: a computational modelen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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