This study examines language use as social action. Using Austin’s (1962), Bach’s (2003), and Searle’s (1969) speech act theory categorizations of constative utterances, performative illocutionary acts, perlocutionary this the acts used by UN’s Secretary-General in his opening remarks Emergency Special Session on Ukraine. The likewise intended actions effects they have audience. reveals that mad...

BACKGROUND Intrahepatic splenosis (IHS) is the autotransplantation of splenic tissue that mostly develops after abdominal injury and is often misdiagnosed as hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) because of similarities in radiological features. We had an opportunity to treat an extremely rare case of intrahepatic splenosis, which were found in a patient without any history of splenic injury. To the b...

In spoken communications, correction utterances, which are utterances correcting other participants utterances and behaviors, play crucial roles, and detecting them is one of the key issues. Previously, much work has been done on automatic detection of correction utterances in human-human and human-computer dialogs, but they mostly dealt with the correction of erroneous utterances. However, in ...

So-called ill-formed utterances abound in natural discourse. This paper describes how listeners can understand such utterances in a discourse, including speech hesitations and slips-of-the-tongue. Through analysis of durations of utterances and their succeeding pauses, and of intonation patterns, and also through listener understanding experiments using ill-formed utterances, the following resu...

As a step toward simulating dynamic dialogue between agents and humans in virtual environments, we describe learning a model of social behavior composed of interleaved utterances and physical actions. In our model, utterances are abstracted as {speech act, propositional content, referent} triples. After training a classifier on 100 gameplay logs from The Restaurant Game annotated with dialogue ...

This paper presents a method for reducing the effort of transcribing user utterances to develop language models for conversational speech recognition when a small number of transcribed and a large number of untranscribed utterances are available. The recognition hypotheses for untranscribed utterances are classified according to their confidence scores such that hypotheses with high confidence ...

This paper provides a description of the structure and goals of the database of Russian Language Affective (emotional) utterances. It also reports some preliminary results of an experimental phonetic analysis of the acoustic characteristics of emotional utterances (surprise, happiness, anger, sadness and fear) vs. neutral ones in Russian. The study utilizes 600 database utterances by 10 speaker...