The introduced speech processing framework creates phonetically and prosodically annotated speech databases. It provides with structured data files in eXtensible Markup Language format. Those files include all available information about a recorded utterance inclusively the speech signal. A Document Type Definition (DTD) describes the data structure and provides with the possibilty of automatic...

Kaplan says that monsters violate Principle 2 of his theory. Principle 2 is that indexicals, pure and demonstrative alike, are directly referential. In providing this explanation of there being no monsters, Kaplan feels his theory has an advantage over double-indexing theories like Kamp’s or Segerberg’s (or Stalnaker’s), which either embrace monsters or avoid them only by ad hoc stipulation, in...

For any given utterance out of what we can loosely call context there is usually more than one possible interpretation A speaker s utterance of an elliptical expression like the gure twelve fteen might have a di erent meaning depending on the discourse context the way the conver sation has evolved until that point and the previous speaker s utterance If this is a problem for any human listener ...

In order to perform effective communication, agents must be able to foresee the effects of their utterances on the addressee’s mental state. In this paper we study the consequences of an utterance on the mental state of a hearer. Given an agent communication language with a STRIPS-like semantics, we propose a set of criteria that allow the binding of the speaker’s mental state to its uttering o...