creators_name: Akman, Varol
creators_name: Surav, Mehmet
editors_name: Buvac, Sasa
type: confpaper
datestamp: 1998-06-24
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:59
metadata_visibility: show
title: Contexts, Oracles, and Relevance
ispublished: pub
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: comp-sci-lang
subjects: ling-prag
subjects: ling-sem
subjects: phil-lang
subjects: phil-logic
full_text_status: public
keywords: context, commonsense reasoning, situation theory, situation semantics, oracle, relevance theory, knowledge representation, inference.
abstract: We focus on how we should define the relevance of information to a context for information processing agents, such as oracles. We build our formalization of relevance upon works in pragmatics which refer to contextual information without giving any explicit representation of context. We use a formalization of context (due to us) in Situation Theory, and demonstrate its power in this task. We also discuss some computational aspects of this formalization.
date: 1995
date_type: published
publisher: The AAAI Press, Menlo, California
pagerange: 23-30
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Akman, Varol and Surav, Mehmet  (1995) Contexts, Oracles, and Relevance.  [Conference Paper]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/473/2/aaai.ps