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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context, CONTEXT'99, held in Trento, Italy, in September 1999.The 33 revised full papers and 21 revised short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 118 papers submitted. The papers address all current aspects of context in various areas such as artificial intelligence, formal logics, computer science, computational linguistics, cognitive science, pragmatics, and philosophy.

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Author:   Paolo Bouquet ,  Luciano Serafini ,  Patrick Brézillon ,  Massimo Benerecetti
Publisher:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Imprint:   Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K
Edition:   1999 ed.
Volume:   1688
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   1.680kg
ISBN:  

9783540664321

ISBN 10:   3540664327
Pages:   536
Publication Date:   25 August 1999
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Full Papers.- Strawson on Intended Meaning and Context.- Epistemic Context, Defeasible Inference and Conversational Implicature.- An Implemented Context System that Combines Belief Reasoning, Metaphor-Based Reasoning and Uncertainty Handling.- Pragmatic Reasoning: Inferring Contexts.- A Model of Context Adapted to Domain-Independent Machine Translation.- Three Forms of Contextual Dependence.- Context Representation for Dialogue Management.- Ecological Interfaces: Extending the Pointing Paradigm by Visual Context.- Formal Context and Morphological Analysis.- The Pragmatic Roots of Context.- Non-acceptances: Re- or Un-creating Context?.- Modelling (Un)Bounded Beliefs.- A Context-Based Logic for Distributed Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- Independence from Context Information Provided by Spatial Signature Learning in a Natural Object Localization Task.- Contextual Dependence and the Epistemic Foundations of Dynamic Semantics.- Dynamics and Automaticity of Context: A Cognitive Modeling Approach.- A Mental Space Account for Speaker’s Empathy: Japanese Profiling Identity vs. English Shading Identity.- On the Role of Context in Relevance-Based Accessibility Ranking of Candidate Referents.- Contextual Inference in Computational Semantics.- Contexts and Views in Object-Oriented Languages.- Objective and Cognitive Context.- Dynamics Between Contextual Knowledge and Proceduralized Context.- A Context-Based Audiovisual Representation Model for Audiovisual Information Systems.- Putting Similarity Assessments into Context: Matching Functions with the User’s Intended Operations.- Presupposition, Implicature and Context in Text Understanding.- The Formal Structure of Ecological Contexts.- Type Theoretic Foundations for Context, Part 1: Contexts as Complex Type-TheoreticObjects.- Violation Contexts and Deontic Independence.- A Model of Explicit Context Representation and Use for Intelligent Agents.- Context-Scanning Strategy in Temporal Reasoning.- The Role of Context in the Analysis and Design of Agent Programs.- Context and Supercontext.- The Role of Context in Interpreting Perceived Events as Actions.- Short Papers.- Contexts, Domains, and Software.- Contextual Data and Domain Knowledge for Incorporation in Knowledge Discovery Systems.- The Differential (?) Processing of Literal and Nonliteral Speech Acts : A Psycholinguistic Approach.- Open Theories and Abduction for Context and Accommodation.- Context as Fuzzy Degrees of Acceptability for Knowledge Base Integrity.- Building Context with Intonation.- Parrot-Talk Requires Multiple Context Dimensions.- Contextual Divorces: Towards a Framework for Identifying Critical Context Issues in Collaborative-Argumentation System Design.- The Role of Context in Pronominal Reference to Higher Order Entities in English and Norwegian.- Connectionist Analysis and Creation of Context for Natural Language Understanding and Knowledge Management.- The Notion of Context in Organisational Memories.- The Effect of Context Complexity on the Memorisation of Objects.- Effects of Discourse Context on Inference Computation During Comprehension.- Counterfactual Reasoning by Means of a Calculus of Narrative Context.- Context and Decision Graphs for Incident Management on a Subway Line.- Using Context to Guide Information Search for Preventive Quality Management.- The Context-Dependency of Temporal Reference in Event Semantics.- How Context Contributes to Metaphor Understanding.- Exploiting Context in Gesture Recognition.- The Use of Context in the Analysis of Negative Concord and N-words.- Aspects of Context for Understanding Multi-modal Communication.

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