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Interpretation as abduction

Jerry R. Hobbs, +3 more
- 01 Oct 1993 - 
- Vol. 63, Iss: 1, pp 69-142
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In this article, the TACITUS project at SRI developed an approach to abductive inference, called "weighted abduction" that has resulted in a significant simplification of how the problem of interpreting texts is conceptualized.
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This article is published in Artificial Intelligence.The article was published on 1993-10-01 and is currently open access. It has received 856 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Pragmatics & Abductive reasoning.

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Abduction, conversational implicature and misleading in human dialogues

Chiaki Sakama, +1 more
- 01 Aug 2016 - 
TL;DR: This article first study abduction in human dialogues, then considers conversational implicature used as pragmatic inference in speech acts and argues how speakers could use abduction or conversationalimplicature for the purpose of misleading hearers.
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The Narrative Dimension

Ephraim Nissan
TL;DR: In this article, an overview of legal narratives with artificial intelligence techniques is presented, and pitfalls to avoid, in consideration of what controversy within legal scholarship implies about the need for the modelling of legal narrative with artificial-intelligence techniques to meet with approval from legal scholars.
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The breadth of semantics: reply to critics

Ernie Lepore, +1 more
- 15 Feb 2016 - 
TL;DR: This paper explored the scope and limits of linguistic knowledge in semantics and pragmatics for natural language, and drew heavily on the notion of coordination from David Lewis' book on conventions, which they used to develop Imagination and Convention.
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Interpretation of Compound Nominals Using WordNet

Leslie Barret, +2 more
TL;DR: An approach to interpreting noun-noun compounds within a question answering system, based on WordNet, that provides the basis for heuristics that group nouns in a compound with semantically similar words.
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Pragmatic Reasoning, Defaults and Discourse Structure

Nicholas Asher, +1 more
TL;DR: This chapter argues for a rich, linguistic notion of discourse context which is computed by means of simple defeasible rules in a nonmonotonic propositional logic, and investigates particular justifications for the various pragmatic principles that the theory adopts, using a variety of game theoretic techniques.
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Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems: Networks of Plausible Inference

Judea Pearl
TL;DR: Probabilistic Reasoning in Intelligent Systems as mentioned in this paper is a complete and accessible account of the theoretical foundations and computational methods that underlie plausible reasoning under uncertainty, and provides a coherent explication of probability as a language for reasoning with partial belief.
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H. P. Grice
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Understanding Natural Language

Terry Winograd
TL;DR: A computer system for understanding English that contains a parser, a recognition grammar of English, programs for semantic analysis, and a general problem solving system based on the belief that in modeling language understanding, it must deal in an integrated way with all of the aspects of language—syntax, semantics, and inference.
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The Proper Treatment of Quantification in Ordinary English

Richard Montague
TL;DR: The aim of this paper is to present in a rigorous way the syntax and semantics of a certain fragment of acertain dialect of English.
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An approach to abductive inference developed in the TACITUS project has resulted in a dramatic simplification of how the problem of interpreting texts is conceptualized. It also suggests an elegant and thorough integration of syntax, semantics, and pragmatics. 

The relations r e / a n d nn are treated here as predicate variables, but they could be treated as predicate constants, in which case the authors would not have quantified over them. 

Implementations of different orders of interpretation, or different sorts of interaction among syntax, compositional semantics, and local pragmatics, can then be seen as different orders of search for a proof of s(O, n, e). 

In addition to type checking, the authors have introduced two other tevhnlques that are necessary for controlling the exploslon~unwinding recursive axioms and making use of syntactic noncoreference information. 

Syntax is captured in predicates like np, vp, and s. Compositional semantics is encoded in, for example, the way the predicat e p' is applied to its arguments in the first axiom, and in the lambda expression in the third argument of vp in the third axiom. 

The syntax portion is represented in standard Prolog manner, with nonterminals treated as predicates and having as two of its arguments the beginning and end points of the phrase spanned by the nonterminal.