Modeling and Using Context: Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT'99, Trento, Italy, September 9-11, 1999, Proceedings

by Paolo Bouquet (Editor)

Full Papers.- Strawson on Intended Meaning and Context.- Epistemic Context, Defeasible Inference and Conversational Implicature.- An Implemented Context System that Combines Belief Reasoning, Metaphor-Based Reasoning and Uncertainty Handling.- Pragmatic Inferring Contexts.- A Model of Context Adapted to Domain-Independent Machine Translation.- Three Forms of Contextual Dependence.- Context Representation for Dialogue Management.- Ecological Extending the Pointing Paradigm by Visual Context.- Formal Context and Morphological Analysis.- The Pragmatic Roots of Context.- Re- or Un-creating Context?.- Modelling (Un)Bounded Beliefs.- A Context-Based Logic for Distributed Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- Independence from Context Information Provided by Spatial Signature Learning in a Natural Object Localization Task.- Contextual Dependence and the Epistemic Foundations of Dynamic Semantics.- Dynamics and Automaticity of A Cognitive Modeling Approach.- A Mental Space Account for Speaker's Japanese Profiling Identity vs. English Shading Identity.- On the Role of Context in Relevance-Based Accessibility Ranking of Candidate Referents.- Contextual Inference in Computational Semantics.- Contexts and Views in Object-Oriented Languages.- Objective and Cognitive Context.- Dynamics Between Contextual Knowledge and Proceduralized Context.- A Context-Based Audiovisual Representation Model for Audiovisual Information Systems.- Putting Similarity Assessments into Matching Functions with the User's Intended Operations.- Presupposition, Implicature and Context in Text Understanding.- The Formal Structure of Ecological Contexts.- Type Theoretic Foundations for Context, Part 1: Contexts as Complex Type-Theoretic Objects.- Violation Contexts and Deontic Independence.- A Model of Explicit Context Representation and Use for Intelligent Agents.- Context-Scanning Strategy in Temporal Reasoning.- The Role of Context in the Analysis and Design of Agent Programs.- Context and Supercontext.- The Role of Context in Interpreting Perceived Events as Actions.- Short Papers.- Contexts, Domains, and Software.- Contextual Data and Domain Knowledge for Incorporation in Knowledge Discovery Systems.- The Differential (?) Processing of Literal and Nonliteral Speech Acts : A Psycholinguistic Approach.- Open Theories and Abduction for Context and Accommodation.- Context as Fuzzy Degrees of Acceptability for Knowledge Base Integrity.- Building Context with Intonation.- Parrot-Talk Requires Multiple Context Dimensions.- Contextual Towards a Framework for Identifying Critical Context Issues in Collaborative-Argumentation System Design.- The Role of Context in Pronominal Reference to Higher Order Entities in English and Norwegian.- Connectionist Analysis and Creation of Context for Natural Language Understanding and Knowledge Management.- The Notion of Context in Organisational Memories.- The Effect of Context Complexity on the Memorisation of Objects.- Effects of Discourse Context on Inference Computation During Comprehension.- Counterfactual Reasoning by Means of a Calculus of Narrative Context.- Context and Decision Graphs for Incident Management on a Subway Line.- Using Context to Guide Information Search for Preventive Quality Management.- The Context-Dependency of Temporal Reference in Event Semantics.- How Context Contributes to Metaphor Understanding.- Exploiting Context in Gesture Recognition.- The Use of Context in the Analysis of Negative Concord and N-words.- Aspects of Context for Understanding Multi-modal Communication.

548 pages, Paperback

First published September 24, 1999