Action at the Tables: Sketching a Tabular Representation for Utterances under the Language-Action Perspective
Steven Orla Kimbrough, Yinghui Yang · 2004
This paper extends previous work on FLBC (formal language for business communication) done with event semantics and disquotation theory. The paper focuses on the development of a tabular user interface for FLBC messages, emphasizing the Language–Action Perspective via speech act theory. We argue that the tabular representations are (a) expressively rich, (b) understandable for users, and (c) interpretable by automated reasoners. By way of demonstrating these claims, FLBC with event semantics and disquotation is extended to accommodate action logic and it is shown that the tabular interface continues to work. The copyright of this paper belongs to the paper’s authors. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage. Proceedings of the 9th International Working Conference on the Language-Action