Protecting the ego: Motivated information selection and updating

Presuppositions and Information Updating Presuppositions and Information Updating

Presupposition failures are errors occurring during the left-right processing of a computer program or natural language text. A general method for analysing such errors with dynamic logic is presented, based on the idea that sequential processing changes context dynamically and that this process of context change can be made the object of analysis in dynamic modal logic.

Motivated Goal and Action Selection

A large part of current research into autonomous control is concerned with building agents that can perform useful functions in real-world domains. Consequently, the behaviour of the system must be exible; the behaviour of an agent must reeect changes in context. This position paper is concerned with the use of motivation as a control mechanism in goal and action selection within an artiicial s...

Presuppositions and Information Updating

Presupposition failures are errors occurring during the left-right processing of a computer program or natural language text. A general method for analysing such errors with dynamic logic is presented, based on the idea that sequential processing changes context dynamically and that this process of context change can be made the object of analysis in dynamic modal logic.

Linguistically-motivated Information Retrieval

Linguistically Motivated Descriptive Term Selection

A linguistically motivated approach to indexing, that is the provision of descriptive terms for texts of any kind, is presented and illustrated. The approach is designed to achieve good, i.e. accurate and flexible, indexing by identifying index term sources in the meaning representations built by a powerful general purpose analyser, and providing a range of text expressions constituting semanti...