Discourse over Discourse: The Need for an Expanded Pragmatic Focus in Conversational AI

The summarization of conversation, a case of discourse conversational summarization and conversational over a discourse, clearly illustrates a series AI more broadly. We illustrate the remaining challenges of pragmatic limitations in contemporary conversational in this area with ill-conceived examples inspired AI applications. While there has been some by conversational AI systems (Gratch et al., previous work examining pragmatic issues in conversational 2014), conversation summarization models, (Gaur AI (i.e., (Bao et al., 2022; Kim et al., et al., 2021) and author interactions with chatbots 2020, 2021a; Nath, 2020; Wu and Ong, 2021)), and voice assistants. Like Chomsky's star sentences, additional progress depends on understanding the these examples have clear pragmatic deficiencies source of limitations in current applications. We that trigger the Turing Test criterion. No aim to contribute to both theory and applications by competent speaker would construct such discourse.