Whetheryouareacomputerscientist,alogician,aphilosopher,orapsychologist, it is crucial to understand the role that context and contextual information plays in reasoning and representation. The conference at which the papers in this volume were presented was the fourth in an international series devoted to research on context, and was held in Stanford (USA) on June 23–25, 2003. The ?rst conference in the series was held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 1997, the second was held in Trento (Italy) in 1999, and the third was held in Dundee (Scotland, UK) in 2001. CONTEXT2003 brought together representative work from many di?erent ?elds: in this volume you will ?nd philosophical theorizing, logical formalization, computationalmodelling—and,indeed,computationalapplications—together with work that approaches context from a more cognitive orientation. While we don’t believe that this volume can capture the lively ?avor of discussion of the conference itself, we do hope that researchers interested in context (in any of its many manifestations) will ?nd something of interest here, perhaps something that will inspire new lines of work. We are very grateful to our invited speakers: Patrick Br´ ezillon (University of Paris VI, France), Keith Devlin (CSLI, Stanford), and David Leake (Indiana University, USA) for presenting three important contemporary perspectives on the study on context.
Author(s): David Ahn (auth.), Patrick Blackburn, Chiara Ghidini, Roy M. Turner, Fausto Giunchiglia (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2680 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2003
Language: English
Pages: 532
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages; Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences; Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities
Presupposition Incorporation in Adverbial Quantification....Pages 1-14
A Theory of Contextual Propositions for Indicatives....Pages 15-28
Context-Sensitive Weights for a Neural Network....Pages 29-39
A Common Sense Theory of Causation....Pages 40-53
How to Refer: Objective Context vs. Intentional Context....Pages 54-65
A SAT-Based Algorithm for Context Matching....Pages 66-79
On the Difference between Bridge Rules and Lifting Axioms....Pages 80-93
Context Dynamic and Explanation in Contextual Graphs....Pages 94-106
A Deduction Theorem for Normal Modal Propositional Logic....Pages 107-115
Natural Deduction and Context as (Constructive) Modality....Pages 116-129
Communicative Contributions and Communicative Genres: Language Production and Language Understanding in Context....Pages 130-141
Explanation as Contextual Categorization....Pages 142-153
Effects of Context on the Description of Olfactory Properties....Pages 154-163
Varieties of Contexts....Pages 164-177
Ubi-UCAM: A Unified Context-Aware Application Model....Pages 178-189
Contextual Effects on Word Order: Information Structure and Information Theory....Pages 190-203
A Generic Framework for Context-Based Distributed Authorizations....Pages 204-217
Unpacking Meaning from Words: A Context-Centered Approach to Computational Lexicon Design....Pages 218-232
A Contextual Approach to the Logic of Fiction....Pages 233-244
Predictive Visual Context in Object Detection....Pages 245-258
Copular Questions and the Common Ground....Pages 259-271
Contextual Coherence in Natural Language Processing....Pages 272-285
Local Relational Model: A Logical Formalization of Database Coordination....Pages 286-299
What to Say on What Is Said....Pages 300-313
Modelling “but” in Task-Oriented Dialogue....Pages 314-327
Dynamic Contextual Intensional Logic: Logical Foundations and an Application....Pages 328-341
Comparatively True Types: A Set-Free Ontological Model of Interpretation and Evaluation Contexts....Pages 342-355
Discourse Context and Indexicality....Pages 356-368
A Mathematical Model for Context and Word-Meaning....Pages 369-382
Demonstratives, Reference, and Perception....Pages 383-396
Perceiving Action from Static Images: The Role of Spatial Context....Pages 397-410
How to Define the Communication Situation: Determining Context Cues in Mobile Telephony....Pages 411-418
How to Use Enriched Browsing Context to Personalize Web Site Access....Pages 419-426
Modular Partial Models: A Formalism for Context Representation....Pages 427-434
Contextual Modeling Using Context-Dependent Feedforward Neural Nets....Pages 435-442
Context-Based Commonsense Reasoning in the DALI Logic Programming Language....Pages 443-450
An Ontology for Mobile Device Sensor-Based Context Awareness....Pages 451-458
The Use of Contextual Information in a Proactivity Model for Conversational Agents....Pages 459-466
GloBuddy, a Dynamic Broad Context Phrase Book....Pages 467-474
Exploiting Dynamicity for the Definition and Parsing of Context Sensitive Grammars....Pages 475-482
Co-text Loss in Textual Chat Tools....Pages 483-490
Context Proceduralization in Decision Making....Pages 491-498
GRAVA: An Architecture Supporting Automatic Context Transitions and Its Application to Robust Computer Vision....Pages 499-506
Speaking One’s Mind....Pages 507-516
Connecting Route Segments Given in Route Descriptions....Pages 517-524
