Presentation	2000/10/5 Discourse structures and prosody as advance signs to infer speech intention Hideko Kashiwazaki,
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Abstract(in English)	People should infer intention, emotion and goals of discourses from some kinds of cues, especially for Japanese language, which has SOV grammatical structure. In the processof language understanding, they should infer intentions positively before listening the end of a sentence or a discourse. In this study, cogniton of intention was investigated using discourse expanding ways andthe prosody as cues. Impression test with different discourse patterns and discourse completion test with different prosody were done about speech acts : requests, refusals and apologies. Resultssuggest that discourse structures and prosody have function to signs of the intention. Intention isexpressed and infered from discourse as a whole.
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Keyword(in English)	intention / prosody / discourse structures / signs / language understanding / speech acts
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Conference Date	2000/10/5(1days)
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Title (in English)	Discourse structures and prosody as advance signs to infer speech intention
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Keyword(1)	intention
Keyword(2)	prosody
Keyword(3)	discourse structures
Keyword(4)	signs
Keyword(5)	language understanding
Keyword(6)	speech acts
1st Author's Name	Hideko Kashiwazaki
1st Author's Affiliation	International Student Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology()
Date	2000/10/5
Paper #	TL2000-19
Volume (vol)	vol.100
Number (no)	335
Page	pp.pp.-
#Pages	8
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