Abstract / Description of output
Interpreting an utterance sometimes depends on the presence and nature of non-linguistic actions. In this paper, we motivate and develop a semantic model of embodied interaction in which the contribution that non-linguistic events make to the content of the interaction is dependent on their rhetorical connections to other actions, both linguistic and non-linguistic. We support our claims with concrete examples from a corpus of online chats, comparing annotations of the linguistic-only content against annotations in which non-linguistic events in the context are taken into account.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Computational Semantics |
Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Pages | 184-194 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Publication status | Published - Apr 2015 |