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Contextual Computing

Part of the Cognitive Technologies Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-17396-7

ISBN: 978-3-642-17395-0

Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg - Springer Journals

Nov 15, 2010

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Chapter 1The Problem of Understanding

Porzel, Robert

Pages: 1 –7

[Reading the Chung Tzu quote presented above one might initially get the impression that it would suffice to specify the meaning of words in some way then string those meanings together and the problem of language understanding would be solved once and for all. However, as in his paradoxical...
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Chapter 2State of the Art

Porzel, Robert

Pages: 9 –33

[Many areas of artificial intelligence (AI) have had to struggle in various ways in which contextual dependencies arise, e.g. knowledge representation, natural language processing or expert systems to name a few. As the importance of context is frequently glossed over in the literature,...
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Chapter 3Domain and Discourse

Porzel, Robert

Pages: 35 –103

[The early ways in which knowledge has been represented semantically in spoken dialogue systems or multi-modal dialogue systems show that individual representations with different semantics and heterogeneously structured content can be found in various formats within single natural language...
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Chapter 4User and Situation

Porzel, Robert

Pages: 105 –150

[Studies on context in human language were not predominant in the influential research direction that bases on an assumed autonomy of syntax [Chomsky, 1965] and that explicitly excluded performance related issues as out of scope of their analysis [Chomsky, 1981]. These analyses focused on...
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Chapter 5Conclusion

Porzel, Robert

Pages: 151 –159

[Firstly, I will summarize the results of this work in the light of the specified aims and intended contributions, as presented in Section 1. Therein, I stated that the central aim of this work is: ”to present a formal approach for explicating contextual information and pragmatic knowledge that...

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