TYPES OF CONTEXTS AND THEIR ROLE IN MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION

Authors
Citation
G. Ferrari, TYPES OF CONTEXTS AND THEIR ROLE IN MULTIMODAL COMMUNICATION, Computational intelligence, 13(3), 1997, pp. 414-426
Citations number
30
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Sciences, Special Topics","Computer Science Artificial Intelligence
Journal title
ISSN journal
08247935
Volume
13
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
414 - 426
Database
ISI
SICI code
0824-7935(1997)13:3<414:TOCATR>2.0.ZU;2-M
Abstract
In this paper the idea is presented that human communication is carrie d through messages that are the result of the integration of a set of communicative acts, some of which are, in a traditional view, contextu al phenomena with respect to a main (linguistic) communication act. A formalization of the notion of communicative situation is attempted, w hich eliminates the distinction between context and main communication acts. The ideas presented in this paper come from a re-thinking of a prototype implemented in 1989 for the ESPRIT Project 527, CFID whose m ain features are presented in Section 4.