creators_name: Edmonds, Bruce
type: confpaper
datestamp: 1998-08-07
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:01
metadata_visibility: show
title: A Simple-Minded Network Model with Context-like Objects
ispublished: unpub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: comp-sci-art-intel
subjects: comp-sci-lang
subjects: comp-sci-mach-learn
subjects: ling-prag
subjects: phil-lang
subjects: phil-logic
full_text_status: public
keywords: context, learning, language, cognitive, models, networks, semantic nets, logic, representation
abstract: The aim of this paper is to describe a simple extension of semantic nets. In this formulation we have labelled nodes with directed arcs, but the directed arcs can lead to other arcs as well as nodes. In this model contexts are not differentiated as special objects, but rather that some nodes to a greater or lesser extent have roles as encoders of contextual information. This formulation is shown to be expressive enough to capture several aspects of context, namely: context-dependent inference, context specific learning, the selection of a relevant context and the generalisation of knowledge. Its strengths are its simplicity, the fact that it can relate and integrate several aspects of context and its connections with formal logic. It is not claimed that this is a model of any type of context found in human activity.
date: 1997
date_type: published
refereed: FALSE
citation:   Edmonds, Bruce  (1997) A Simple-Minded Network Model with Context-like Objects.  [Conference Paper]    (Unpublished)  
document_url: http://cogprints.org/512/1/simconA4.ps
document_url: http://cogprints.org/512/5/simcon.pdf