Open AccessUTTERANCE AND OBJECTIVE: Issues in Natural Language Communication
Author(s) -
Grosz Barbara J.
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
ai magazine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.597
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 2371-9621
pISSN - 0738-4602
DOI - 10.1609/aimag.v1i1.86
Subject(s) - utterance , natural (archaeology) , computer science , natural language , phrase , perspective (graphical) , process (computing) , linguistics , natural language processing , artificial intelligence , programming language , philosophy , history , archaeology
Two premises, reflected in the title, underlie the perspective from which I will consider research in natural language processing in this article. First, progress on building computer systems that process natural languages in any meaningful sense (i.e., systems that interact reasonably with people in natural language) requires considering language as part of a larger communicative situation. Second, as the phrase “utterance and objective” suggests, regarding language as communication requires consideration of what is said literally, what is intended, and the relationship between the two.