CONVERSATIONAL IMPLICATURE AND IMPLICITURE
Keywords:
implicature, impliciture, conversation, speech act, utterance, illocutionary act, communication, speaker, listener.Abstract
This thesis describes a variety of methods combining approaches to context modeling with conversational implicature and impliciture and having models of both speaker and listener also provides a way to reduce the search space by sampling likely subsets of possible utterances and meanings.
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