Like in Similes – A Relevance-Theoretic View

Fuzzy sets form A meta-system-theoretic point of view

A relevance theoretic approach to relevance

This paper outlines a model of what a theory of mental representations (TMR) for reference resolution would be. Such a theory would be a specification of relevance theory on the specific point of referents attribution. Mental representations (MR) are conceived as a kind of hinge between referring expressions on the one hand and objects in the world on the other hand. The introduction defines re...

A Broader View of Relevance

The question of the relevance of MIS research to practitioners is part of the broader question of the match between academic research goals and the goals of constituents. We call for a broader conception of who those constituents might be, and the implications that has for the activities of MIS academics.

A Game Theoretic Neighbourhood-Based Relevance Index

Centrality measures are used in network analysis to identify the relevant elements in a network. Recently, several centrality measures based on coalitional game theory have been successfully applied to different kinds of biological networks, such as brain networks, gene networks, and metabolic networks. We propose an approach, using coalitional games, to the problem of identifying relevant gene...

Relevance-theoretic pragmatics and modularity

An interesting issue for any mentalist approach to pragmatics is whether the utterance comprehension system is an autonomous processor within the overall cognitive system or consists of processes carried out by an unencapsulated central inferencing system. Two approaches to pragmatics which claim to involve modular subsystems in utterance understanding are discussed (Barton's contextual submodu...