creators_name: Akman, Varol
creators_name: Surav, Mehmet
type: journalp
datestamp: 1998-06-16
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:58
metadata_visibility: show
title: The Use of Situation Theory in Context Modeling
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: comp-sci-lang
subjects: ling-comput
subjects: ling-prag
subjects: ling-sem
subjects: phil-lang
subjects: phil-logic
full_text_status: public
keywords: context, co-text, lifting, knowledge representation, commonsense reasoning, natural language processing, situation theory, logic, pragmatics, semantics.
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.
date: 1997-08
date_type: published
publication: Computational Intelligence: An International Journal
volume: 13
number: 3
pagerange: 427-438
refereed: TRUE
citation:   Akman, Varol and Surav, Mehmet  (1997) The Use of Situation Theory in Context Modeling.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/460/2/cipaper.ps