In a speech community, people utilize their communicative competence which they have acquired from their society as part of their distinctive sociolinguistic identity. They negotiate and share meanings, because they have commonsense knowledge about the world, and have universal practical reasoning. Their commonsense knowledge is embodied in their language. Thus, not only does social life depend...

The increasing demands concerning the modifiability and connectivity of business processes cannot be met adequately anymore by relying on best practices only. There is an urgent need for a reference conceptual framework for studying, modeling, analyzing and designing business processes. The Language-Action Perspective (LAP), in particular Habermas’ theory of Communicative Action offers a sound ...

Many communicative behaviors in the animal kingdom consist of performing and recognizing specialized patterns of oscillatory motion. Here we present an approach to the representation and recognition of these oscillatory motions based on the categorical organization of a simple sinusoidal model having very specific and limited parameter values. This characterization is used to specify the types ...

The paper discusses a framework for planning contributions in a spoken dialogue system, and focuses especially on the three I's: Incrementality, Immediacy, and Interactivity. The emphasis is on communicative principles and the notion of NewInfo, or the information focus of the utterance. NewInfo provides a natural way of to conceptualize the planning process and to generate utterances on the le...

Abstrae%: A framework for the description of syntactic structures of free word order languages is proposed, based on combination of intuitions underlying immediate constituent description, dependency description and communicative dynamism. The combined approach is compared to its sources and shown superior in descriptive power, esp. in the area of free intermixing of (any number of) adjuncts wi...

Speech-enabled dialogue systems developed within an iCALL framework offer a potentially powerful tool for dealing with the challenges of teaching/learning an endangered language where learners have limited access to native speaker models of the language and limited exposure to the language in a truly communicative setting. This paper explores the major potential of virtual conversational agent ...

We present an approach to reasoning about conversations within the framework of a logic-based agent language. Our agent theory is based on a modal logic of actions and beliefs and permits the representation of communicative acts and conversation protocols, allowing agents to reason about them before their execution. The work is framed in a world wide web context, in which we show how reasoning ...

Personalized contents have been getting more attention from industry and academia due to its effective communicative role in product advertisements. However, there exist potential threats to the customer’s privacy in conventional approaches where a data server containing customer profiles is employed or the customer profiles is required to be sent over the public network. To address this, this ...