A Simple Speech-Act-Theoretic Indexing Scheme for Documents

This paper introduces and reports on the ICT framework for indexing document content. The framework is based on speech act theory, and has been implemented in a working prototype system for the U.S. Coast Guard. Very much remains to be learned about the framework and how best to use it, but the idea is very promising, and is fully formalized, thereby facilitating automated processing.

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