PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Loebner Prize, Deixis, Speech Disfluency
Document Summary
Human vs. animal communication; spoken language, sign language, co-speech gesture. Language in relation to other psychological domains. Starting point: it is not enough to know the inventory of symbols in your language, accompanying paralinguistic and gestural cues, etc. Successful communication involves knowing how to use language in a socially sophisticated way. Starting point: using artificial intelligence (ai) to gain insights into conversation behavior. Cooperation in conversation: turn-taking, sentence structuring, common ground and reference. Details in the act of speaking: disfluencies and their effects: production, preparation. Using artificial intelligence to gain insights into the psychology of conversational interacton. Start with fully functioning system (mind/brain), try to deconstruct how it works scientifically. Goal runs in opposite direction: to create/build a fully functioning system. Successes and failures can highlight the important properties of the fully functioning system. 1960s conversational simulation (e. g, eliza) using text-based system.
