Formal Aspects of Context - Applied Logic Series Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2000 edition

Marc Notes: Originally published: Dordrecht; London: Kluwer Academic, 2000.; Includes index.; The First International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modelling and Using Context, Rio de Janeiro, January 1997, gave rise to the present book, which contains a selection of the papers presented there, thoroughly refereed and revised. Table of Contents: Editorial Preface; D. M. Gabbay. Introduction. Formal and Computational Models of Context for Natural Language Generation; K. van Deemter, J. Odijk. Requirements for Dialogue Context Modelling; H. Bunt. Contextual Constraints on Thematization in Written Discourse: An Empirical Study; J. Lavid. Context and Implicitness: Consequences for Traditional and Computer-assisted Text Analysis; M. Galliker, D. Weimer. A Context-based Mechanization of Multi-agent Reasoning; A. Cimatti, L. Serafini. Presuppositions in Context: Constructing Bridges; P. Piwek, E. Krahmer. Reasoning with Multilevel Contexts in Semantic Metanetworks; V. Y. Terziyan, S. Puuronen. Contextual Learning: Towards using Contexts to Achieve Generality; P. Bonzon. Contextual Deontic Logic: Violation Contexts and Factual Defeasibility; L. W. N. van der Torre, Y.-H. Tan. A Local Models Semantics for Propositional Attitudes; F. Giunchiglia, C. Ghidini. Context-based Semantics for Information Integration; L. Serafini, C. Ghidini. Structured Contexts with Fibred Semantics; D. M. Gabbay, R. T. Nossum. Publisher Marketing: We welcome Volume 20, Formal Aspects of Context. Context has always been recognised as strongly relevant to models in language, philosophy, logic and artifi cial intelligence. In recent years theoretical advances in these areas and especially in logic have accelerated the study of context in the international community. An annual conference is held and many researchers have come to realise that many of the old puzzles should be reconsidered with proper attention to context. The volume editors and contributors are from among the most active front-line researchers in the area and the contents shows how wide and vigorous this area is. There are strong scientific connections with earlier volumes in the series. I am confident that the appearance of this book in our series will help secure the study of context as an important area of applied logic. D. M. Gabbay INTRODUCTION This book is a result of the First International and Interdisciplinary Con ference on Modelling and Using Context, which was organised in Rio de Janeiro in January 1997, and contains a selection of the papers presented there, refereed and revised through a process of anonymous peer review. The treatment of contexts as bona-fide objects of logical formalisation has gained wide acceptance in recent years, following the seminal impetus by McCarthy in his 'lUring award address." Review Citations:

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