title: Steps toward Formalizing Context creator: Akman, Varol creator: Surav, Mehmet subject: Cognitive Psychology subject: Artificial Intelligence subject: Language subject: Computational Linguistics subject: Pragmatics subject: Semantics subject: Philosophy of Language subject: Logic description: The importance of contextual reasoning is emphasized by various researchers in AI. (A partial list includes John McCarthy and his group, R. V. Guha, Yoav Shoham, Giuseppe Attardi and Maria Simi, and Fausto Giunchiglia and his group.) Here, we survey the problem of formalizing context and explore what is needed for an acceptable account of this abstract notion. date: 1996 type: Journal (Paginated) type: PeerReviewed format: application/postscript identifier: http://cogprints.org/464/2/aimag.ps identifier: Akman, Varol and Surav, Mehmet (1996) Steps toward Formalizing Context. [Journal (Paginated)] relation: http://cogprints.org/464/