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C. Raymond Perrault

C. Raymond Perrault has 3 papers in our library, in 1978–1980, most of them on Speech act theory, Dialogue systems; often with James F. Allen, Philip R. Cohen.

3 papers in our library · 1978–1980

OpenAlex · ORCID · h-index 14 · 30 works · 3,227 citations OpenAlex, 2026-10-14

📄 3 works in our library · 🔗 Cited 172 times in our library · 2 more in our library without a page yet · ⭐ Paper Stars ranking: #5940

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 Affiliations

🔬SRI InternationalMenlo Park · United States1986–2024 · 5 paperscurrent🎓University of TorontoToronto · Canada1976–2003 · 15 papers

From the bylines of their papers (OpenAlex, 2026-10-14), ORCID and Wikidata; institutions on papers are matched by machine. 1 more institution on single bylines are not listed.

 Fields, topics and concepts

Of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

📚 Shelves 4The field of science this work belongs to (OpenAlex fields).Arts and Humanities · 3 worksLanguage and Linguistics · 3 worksArtificial Intelligence · 2 worksComputer Science · 2 works

🧭 Topics 2Research subjects and languages the work is about.Speech act theory · 3 worksDialogue systems · 2 works

 Works by year

1980s

19801 paper

1970s

19782 papers

 Papers

The most cited first (OpenAlex and our library).

  1. Speech Acts as a Basis for Understanding Dialogue Coherence (1978 · 66 citations)
    Perrault, Allen and Cohen ask what makes a dialogue hang together. Their answer is that utterances, like physical actions, are steps in plans. A dialogue reads as coherent when a listener can reconstruct the goal those steps serve. Each agent keeps a model of the world, including its beliefs about the other agent's…
  2. Speech Acts as a Basis for Understanding Dialogue Coherence (1978 · 63 citations)
    The paper asks what makes a dialogue hang together. The authors argue that utterances, like physical actions, seem coherent when an observer can link them to a shared overall goal. They propose treating speech acts as planning operators. Each operator has preconditions and effects, and those effects fall mainly on…
  3. A Plan-Based Analysis of Indirect Speech Act (1980 · 44 citations)
    This 1980 article by C. Raymond Perrault and James F. Allen, published in the American Journal of Computational Linguistics, explains why sentences whose grammatical mood suggests one act can perform another. For example, a yes/no question such as "Can you pass the salt?" can work as a request. The authors build on…

All works

5 works of theirs in our library, the most cited first; 3 with a page here, the others link their original until we summarise them.

  1. Analyzing intention in utterances ↗Artificial Intelligence 15(3):143–178 · no summary yetJames F. Allen, C. Raymond Perrault1980 · 837 citations
  2. Elements of a Plan-Based Theory of Speech Acts ↗Cognitive Science 3(3):177–212 · no summary yetPhilip R. Cohen, C. Raymond Perrault1979 · 452 citations
  3. Speech Acts as a Basis for Understanding Dialogue CoherenceTheoretical Issues in Natural Language Processing (TINLAP)C. Raymond Perrault, James F. Allen1978 · 66 citations
  4. Speech Acts as a Basis for Understanding Dialogue CoherenceComputational LinguisticsC. Raymond Perrault, James F. Allen, Philip R. Cohen1978 · 63 citations
  5. A Plan-Based Analysis of Indirect Speech ActComputational LinguisticsC. Raymond Perrault1980 · 44 citations

 Co-authors here

2 co-authors with a page, the most papers together first.

Venues

Where their works here were published, the most works first, with the editions of those that have a page.

 Cited by

Papers of our library cite their works 172 times (of the 149,439 papers whose bibliographies we read); 34 citing papers with a page here →.

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