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The Use of Situation Theory in Context Modeling

Akman, Varol and Surav, Mehmet (1997) The Use of Situation Theory in Context Modeling. [Journal (Paginated)]

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Abstract

At the heart of natural language processing is the understanding of context dependent meanings. This paper presents a preliminary model of formal contexts based on situation theory. It also gives a worked-out example to show the use of contexts in lifting, i.e., how propositions holding in a particular context transform when they are moved to another context. This is useful in NLP applications where preserving meaning is a desideratum.

Item Type:Journal (Paginated)
Keywords:context, co-text, lifting, knowledge representation, commonsense reasoning, natural language processing, situation theory, logic, pragmatics, semantics.
Subjects:Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence
Computer Science > Language
Linguistics > Computational Linguistics
Linguistics > Pragmatics
Linguistics > Semantics
Philosophy > Philosophy of Language
Philosophy > Logic
ID Code:460
Deposited By: Akman, Varol
Deposited On:16 Jun 1998
Last Modified:11 Mar 2011 08:53

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