Artificial Believers: The Ascription of Belief
Modeling of individual beliefs is essential to the computer understanding of natural languages. Phenomena at all levels — syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic — cannot be fully analyzed in the absence of models of a hearer and of the hearer's model of other believers. The heart of this text is the presentation of an artificial intelligence (AI) program intended to simulate certain aspects of a human believer. This book provides a prolog program, Viewgen, that maintains belief structures about the world and other believers, and is able to ascribe beliefs to others without direct evidence by using a form of default reasoning. The authors contend that a plausible model such as this can — in the best cognitive science tradition — shed light on the long-standing philosophical problem of what belief is.
The issues presented here will be of considerable interest to an informed general reader as well as those with a background in any of the disciplines that make up what is now called cognitive science: philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neuropsychology, and also AI itself.
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The issues presented here will be of considerable interest to an informed general reader as well as those with a background in any of the disciplines that make up what is now called cognitive science: philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neuropsychology, and also AI itself.
Artificial Believers: The Ascription of Belief
Modeling of individual beliefs is essential to the computer understanding of natural languages. Phenomena at all levels — syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic — cannot be fully analyzed in the absence of models of a hearer and of the hearer's model of other believers. The heart of this text is the presentation of an artificial intelligence (AI) program intended to simulate certain aspects of a human believer. This book provides a prolog program, Viewgen, that maintains belief structures about the world and other believers, and is able to ascribe beliefs to others without direct evidence by using a form of default reasoning. The authors contend that a plausible model such as this can — in the best cognitive science tradition — shed light on the long-standing philosophical problem of what belief is.
The issues presented here will be of considerable interest to an informed general reader as well as those with a background in any of the disciplines that make up what is now called cognitive science: philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neuropsychology, and also AI itself.
The issues presented here will be of considerable interest to an informed general reader as well as those with a background in any of the disciplines that make up what is now called cognitive science: philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neuropsychology, and also AI itself.
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Artificial Believers: The Ascription of Belief
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Product Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780805804539 |
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| Publisher: | Taylor & Francis |
| Publication date: | 09/01/1991 |
| Pages: | 288 |
| Product dimensions: | 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d) |
| Lexile: | 1440L (what's this?) |
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