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"text": "Thls is the truth-conditional meaning of the propositions those forms express and entail. Some of the meaning is suggested (or 'implicated', as Grice would say) by the fact that the encooer expresses just those propositions in just those linguistic forms in just the given contexts [2] . The first klnd of meaning is usually labeled 'semantics'; it is decoded. The second Is usually labeled 'pragmatlcs';",
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"text": "it is inferred from clues provided by code and context.",
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"text": "Both kinds of meaning are related to syntax in ways that we are coming to understand better as work continues in analyzing language and constructing processing models for communlcatlon.",
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"text": "We are also coming to a better understanding of the relationship between the perceptual and conceptual structures that organize human experience and make it encodabla in words.",
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"text": "I see thls progress in understanding not as the result of a revolution in the paradigm of computational linguistics in which one approach to natural language processing is abandoned for another, but rather as an expansion of our ideas of what both language and computers can do. We have been able to incorporate what we learned earlier in the game in a broader approach to more significant tasks.",
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"text": "Certalnly within the last twenty years, the discipline of computational linguistics has expanded its view of its object of concern.",
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"text": "Twenty years ago, that vlew was focussed on a central aspect of language, language as code [3] . The paradigmatic task of our dlsclpllne then was to transform a message encoded in one language into the same message encoded In another, using dictionaries and syntactic rules. (Originally, the task was not to translate but to transform the input as an ald to human translators.)",
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"text": "Colncldentally, those were the days of batch processing and the typical inputs were scientific texts -written monologues that existed as completed, static discourses before processlnK began. Then came interactive processing, brlnglng with It the opportunity for what is now called 'dialogue' between user and machine.",
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"text": "At the same time, and perhaps not wholly colnoldentally, another aspect of language became salient for computational linguistics --the aspect of language as behavior, with two or more people using the code to engage in purposeful ~ communication.",
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"text": "The inputs now include discourse in which the amount of code to be interpreted continues to grow as participants in dialogue interact, and their interactions become part of the contexts for on-golng, dynamic interpretation.",
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"text": "The paradigmatic task now Is to simulate in non- conclusions about what is in each other's minds. Performing this task still requires processing language as code, but it also requires analyzing the code in a context, to identify clues to the pragmatic meaning of its use.",
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"text": "One way of representing thls enlarged task to conceive of it as requiring three concentric klnds of knowledge: a intrallngulatlc knowledge, or knowledge of the code \u2022 interllngulstlc knowledge, or knowledge of linguistic behavior",
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"text": "\u2022 extrnllngulstlc knowledge, or knowledge of the perceptual and conceptual structures that language users have, the things they attend to and the goals they pursue",
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"text": "The papers we will hear today range over techniques for identifylr~, representing and applying the various kinds of knowledge for the processing of discourse. McKeown exploits intrallngulstic knowledge for extralingulstic purposes. When the goal of a request for new information is not uniquely identlfiabte, she proposes to use syntactic transformations of the code of the request to clarify its ambiguities and ensure that its goal is subsequently understood. Shanon is also concerned with appropriateness of answers, and reports an investigation of the extralinguistic conceptual structuring of space that affects the pragmatic rules people follow in furnishing appropriate information in response to questions about where things are. Llke Sldner, they use syntactic clues and tlke Shanon, they seek to identify the conceptual structures that underlie behavior.",
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"text": "Code and behavior interact with intentions in ways that are still mysterious but clearly important.",
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"text": "The last two papers stress the fact that using language is intentional behavior and that understanding the purposes a discourse serves is a necessary part of understanding the discourse itself. Mann claims that dialogues are comprehensible only because participants provide clues to each other that make available knowledge of the goals being pursued.",
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"text": "Alien and Perrault note that intention pervades all three layers of discourse, pointing out that, in order to be successful, a speaker must intend that the hearer recognize his intentions and infer his goals, but that these intentions are not signaled in any simple way in the code.",
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"text": "In all of these papers, language is viewed as providing both codes for and clues to meaning, so that when it is used in discourse, Its forms can be decoded and their import can be grasped.",
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"text": "As language users, we know that we can know, to a surprising extent, what someone else means for us to know.",
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"text": "~e also sometimes know that we don't know what someone else means rot us to know.",
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"text": "As computational linguists, we are ~rying to figure out precisely how we know such things.",
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