Communication from an Artificial Intelligence Perspective

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence and Communication

   • Andrew Ortony, Jon Slack, Oliviero Stock

   Pages 1-15

3. Integrating Pragmatics into Update Semantics

   • Henk Zeevat, Remko Scha

   Pages 17-33

4. Metaphor and Abduction

   • Jerry R. Hobbs

   Pages 35-58

5. Communication and Attitude Revision

   • Douglas E. Appelt

   Pages 59-72

6. Why Text Planning (Still) Isn’t Planning

   • Paul S. Jacobs

   Pages 73-89

7. Language and Discourse in the TRAINS Project

   • James F. Allen, Lenhart K. Schubert

   Pages 91-120

8. WIP: The Coordinated Generation of Multimodal Presentations from a Common Representation

   • Wolfgang Wahlster, Elisabeth André, Som Bandyopadhyay, Winfried Graf, Thomas Rist

   Pages 121-143

9. Planning, Reacting, and Communicating

   • Elaine Rich

   Pages 145-168

10. Agent Modelling for Intelligent Tutoring Settings

    • Helder Coelho

    Pages 169-189

11. Using Content-based AI to Structure Human-Computer Interaction

    • Lawrence Birnbaum, William Ferguson, Menachem Jona

    Pages 191-203

12. No More Cooperation, Please! In Search of the Social Structure of Verbal Interaction

    • Cristiano Castelfranchi

    Pages 205-227

13. Prolegomena to a Theory of Communication and Affect

    • Aaron Sloman

    Pages 229-260

Castel Ivano, originally built in 1375, is one of many beautiful and impressive castles strategically placed atop hills in Trentino's Valsugana in Northern Italy. It was in this castle on a series of brilliant sunny crisp November days in 1990 that an international group of computer scientists and cognitive scientists met at a workshop to discuss theoretical and applied issues concerning communi­ cation from an Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science perspective. About forty people, representing nine countries, participated in the workshop, either as speakers, discussants, or observers. The main motivationfor the workshop wasto address the questionofwhether and how current computational approaches to communication can or might be able to accommodate the range of complexities that characterize both human­ human and human-machine communication. The chapters in this book are based on the papers that were presented at the workshop. They are presented in an order that is determined primarily by the specificity of the topics they address. The initial chapters are more theoretical in nature with an emphasis on formal approaches to communication. The middle chapters focus on particular application issues, such as the generation ofmultimedia documents and the role of planning in building systems to support human-human or human-machine interaction. The final few chapters consider more general issues relating to com­ munication, such as the influence ofsocial structure on, and the role of affect in communication.

• Human Communication
• Kognitionswissenschaft
• Kommunikation
• Künstliche Intelligenz
• Multimedia
• Psycholinguistics
• Psycholinguistik
• artificial intelligence
• cognitive science
• communication
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• intelligence
• modeling
• semantics

• Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, USA

  Andrew Ortony

• Instituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica, Povo, Trento, Italy

  Jon Slack, Oliviero Stock

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