Speech acts in electronic communication with special reference to KQML and ANSI X12

Author

Covington, Michael A.

Author_Institution

Artificial Intelligence Center, Georgia Univ., Athens, GA, USA

Volume

4

fYear

1997

Firstpage

478

Abstract

The paper examines the encoding of speech acts in KQML at length and in ANSI X12 briefly. KQML is a speech act based language developed with ARPA funding, and X12 is the American standard for electronic data interchange (EDI) message formats. The author concludes that although speech act theory is highly relevant to electronic communication, the needs of computers are different from those of humans. Computers need to perform concisely speech acts that are clumsy in human speech, such as arranging communication paths. They also need to recognize speech act types as immediately as possible, whereas human language gets along with clumsy encodings of speech acts into grammar

Keywords

LISP; computational linguistics; electronic data interchange; knowledge based systems; speech coding; speech recognition; ANSI X12; American standard; EDI message formats; KQML; clumsy encodings; communication paths; electronic communication; electronic data interchange; human speech; speech act based language; speech act encoding; speech act theory; speech act types; Application software; Communication system security; Computer displays; Encoding; Humans; Natural languages; Ontologies; Operating systems; Software engineering; Speech recognition;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1997, Proceedings of the Thirtieth Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Wailea, HI

ISSN

1060-3425

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7743-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1997.663421

Filename

663421