Context has emerged as a central concept in a variety of contemporary app- aches to reasoning. The conference at which the papers in this volume were presented was the third international, interdisciplinary conference on the topic of context, and was held in Dundee, Scotland on July 27-30, 2001. The ?rst conference in this series was held in Rio de Janiero in 1997, and the second in Trento in 1999. Like the previous conferences, CONTEXT 2001 was remarkably successful in bringing together representatives of many di?erent ?elds, spanning the entire range of the cognitive and informational sciences, and with interests ranging from speci?c, commercial applications to highly general philosophical and logical theories. The papers collected here demonstrate well the range of context-related - search. While foundational problems remain, and continue to be discussed in many of the contributions collected in this volume, the work shows increased - phistication about what forms of reasoning are important, and what techniques are appropriate in accounting for them. The papers themselves, however, do not convey the lively excitement of the conference itself, and the continuing spirit of cooperation and communication across disciplines that has been the hallmark of these conferences. We are very pleased that the ?eld of context research has shown over four years intense, sustained development while retaining this sense of interdisciplinary cooperation.
Author(s): Horacio Arló Costa (auth.), Varol Akman, Paolo Bouquet, Richmond Thomason, Roger Young (eds.)
Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science 2116 : Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 472
Tags: Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics); Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages
Trade-Offs between Inductive Power and Logical Omniscience in Modeling Context....Pages 1-14
Uncertainty and Conflict Handling in the ATT-Meta Context-Based System for Metaphorical Reasoning....Pages 15-29
Word Sieve: A Method for Real-Time Context Extraction....Pages 30-44
Pragmatic Reasoning Pragmatic Semantics and Semantic Pragmatics....Pages 45-58
On the Dimensions of Context Dependence: Partiality, Approximation, and Perspective....Pages 59-72
Context of Utterance and Intended Context....Pages 73-86
Two Formalizations of Context: A Comparison....Pages 87-101
Consider the Alternatives: Focus in Contrast and Context....Pages 102-115
Context in the Study of Human Languages and Computer Programming Languages: A Comparison....Pages 116-128
Modeling Context Effect in Perceptual Domains....Pages 129-142
Learning Appropriate Contexts....Pages 143-155
Context and Relevance: A Pragmatic Approach....Pages 156-169
Counterfactual Reasoning....Pages 170-183
Context-Based Ambiguity Management for Natural Language Processing....Pages 184-197
A Connectionist-Symbolic Approach to Modeling Agent Behavior: Neural Networks Grouped by Contexts....Pages 198-209
Context Dependency of Pattern-Category Learning....Pages 210-220
Simulating Context Effects in Problem Solving with AMBR....Pages 221-234
A New Method Based on Context for Combining Statistical Language Models....Pages 235-247
Experimental Pragmatics: Towards Testing Relevance-Based Predictions about Anaphoric Bridging Inferences....Pages 248-260
Workflow Context as a Means for Intelligent Information Support....Pages 261-274
The Role and Modeling of Context in a Cognitive Model of Rogers’ Person-Centred Approach....Pages 275-289
Local Holism....Pages 290-303
Whom Is the Problem of the Essential Indexical a Problem for?....Pages 304-315
Contextual Categorization and Cognitive Phenomena....Pages 316-329
Representing the Graphics Context to Support Understanding Plural Anaphora in Multi-modal Interfaces....Pages 330-342
Using Explicit, A Priori Contextual Knowledge in an Intelligent Web Search Agent....Pages 343-352
Contexts and Philosophical Problems of Knowledge....Pages 353-366
Practical Context Transformation for Information System Interoperability....Pages 367-380
Explanation as Contextual....Pages 381-394
Contextual Categorization: A Mechanism Linking Perception and Knowledge in Modeling and Simulating Perceived Events as Actions....Pages 395-408
The Motivational Context....Pages 409-412
An Approach to Anaphora Based on Mental Models....Pages 413-416
Context and Multi-media Corpora ....Pages 417-420
Belief Expansion, Contextual Fit, and the Reliability of Information Sources....Pages 421-424
The Role of the Context in the Acquisition and in the Organisation of Knowledge: Studies from Adults and from Children....Pages 425-428
VC-Dimension of a Context-Dependent Perceptron....Pages 429-432
A Framework for Context-Driven Web Resource Discovery....Pages 433-436
Specifying Contexts for Coordination Patterns....Pages 437-440
Looking at “Situated” Technology: Differences in Pattern of Interaction Reflect Differences in Context....Pages 441-444
A Context-Driven Approach for Knowledge Acquisition: Application to a Leukaemia Domain....Pages 445-448
Context in Natural-Language Communication: Presupposed or Co-supposed?....Pages 449-452
Using Contexts Competition to Model Tactical Human Behavior in a Simulation....Pages 453-456
Case Studies in Developing Contextualising Information Systems....Pages 457-460
About Some Relationships between Knowledge and Context....Pages 461-464
Combining Cases and Rules to Provide Contextualised Knowledge Based Systems....Pages 465-469
