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The First International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context, held in Rio de Janeiro, in January 1997, gave rise to the present book, which contains a selection of the papers presented there, thoroughly refereed and revised. The treatment of contexts as bona fide objects of logical formalization has gained wide acceptance, following the seminal impetus given by McCarthy in his Turing Award address. The field of natural language offers a particularly rich variety of examples and challenges to researchers concerned with the formal modelling of context, and several chapters in the volume deal with contextualization in the setting of natural language. Others adopt a purely formal-logical viewpoint, seeking to develop general models of even wider applicability. The 12 chapters are organized in three groups: formalization of contextual information in natural language understanding and generation; the application of context in mechanized reasoning domains; and novel non-classical logics for contextual application.

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Author:   Pierre Bonzon ,  Marcos Cavalcanti ,  Rolf Nossum ,  Dov M. Gabbay
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   2000 ed.
Volume:   20
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   1.110kg
ISBN:  

9780792363507

ISBN 10:   0792363507
Pages:   216
Publication Date:   31 July 2000
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Formal and Computational Models of Context for Natural Language Generation.- Requirements for Dialogue Context Modelling.- Contextual Constraints on Thematization in Written Discourse: An Empirical Study.- Context and Implicitness: Consequences for Traditional and Computer-assisted Text Analysis.- A Context-based Mechanization of Multi-agent Reasoning.- Presuppositions in Context: Constructing Bridges.- Reasoning with Multilevel Contexts in Semantic Metanetworks.- Contextual Learning: Towards using Contexts to Achieve Generality.- Contextual Deontic Logic: Violation Contexts and Factual Defeasibility.- A Local Models Semantics for Propositional Attitudes.- Context-based Semantics for Information Integration.- Structured Contexts with Fibred Semantics.

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