Reasoning Requirements for Indirect Speech Act Interpretation (2020.coling-main)
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| Challenge: | Existing systems that pretrain word and sentence embeddings to account for nearby linguistic context are unclear how to integrate extra-linguistic context into NLU. |
| Approach: | They perform a corpus analysis to develop a representation of the knowledge and reasoning used to interpret indirect speech acts. |
| Outcome: | The proposed model is based on the domain-general patterns of reasoning involved and implements Answer Set programming. |
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