INTERPRET: Interpret utterance

In MoLE: Modeling Language Evolution

Description

Determines the best interpretation of an utterance given the situational context. Compares different interpretations if multiple analyses are possible and chooses most likely one given context.

Usage

INTERPRET(hearerID, utterance, situation)

Arguments

hearerID	Pointer to the hearer agent
utterance	The utterance to be interpreted
situation	Set of events in which utterance was used

Details

#first use explicit role marking #then word order (if still necessary) #then verb morphology (idem)

Value

interpretation, i.e. a list:

external	representation of the external argument
internal	representation of the internal argument, if identified
verb	representation of the action argument
target	target event identified on the basis of interpretation, including matching scores

Author(s)

Sander Lestrade

See Also

TURN

Examples

FOUND()
situation=SITUATION(1)
proposition=PROPOSITION(1, situation)
utterance=PRODUCE(1, proposition)
INTERPRET(2, utterance, situation)

Example output

$verb
   D1 D2 D3 D4 D5    D6    D7 D8    D9 Ext1 Ext2 Ext3 Ext4 Ext5 Ext6  Ext7
57  0  1  1  0  0 0.125 0.875  1 0.125    0    0    0    0    0    1 0.875
    Ext8  Ext9 Int1 Int2 Int3 Int4 Int5 Int6 Int7 Int8 Int9     type ID
57 0.625 0.125   NA   NA   NA   NA   NA   NA   NA   NA   NA onePlace 57
         form frequency recency activation productionEffort semanticWeight
57 opudypytyg         0       3          0               10              1

$external
    D1 D2 D3 D4 D5   D6  D7    D8    D9 person  ID      form frequency argument
147  0  1  0  0  0 0.25 0.5 0.625 0.875      3 147 umepupefy         0        0
    nounMarker verbMarker recency activation productionEffort semanticWeight
147          0          0       3          0                9              1
    topic
147     1

$target
   V1 V2 V3 V4 V5    V6    V7 V8    V9 A1 A2 A3 A4 A5   A6  A7    A8    A9
19  0  1  1  0  0 0.125 0.875  1 0.125  0  1  0  0  0 0.25 0.5 0.625 0.875
   personA U1 U2 U3 U4 U5 U6 U7 U8 U9 personU target topic verbMatch
19       3 NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA NA    <NA>      1 actor  1.002756
   externalMatch internalMatch penalty totalMatch
19      1.009945             0       0   2.012702

MoLE documentation built on May 2, 2019, 3:02 p.m.