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Context as a Spurious Concept
Graeme Hirst
I take issue with AI formalizations of context, primarily the formalization by McCarthy and Buvac, that regard context as an undefined primitive whose formalization can be the same…
An Implemented Formalism for Computing Linguistic Presuppositions and Existential Commitments
Daniel Marcu, Graeme Hirst
We rely on the strength of linguistic and philosophical perspectives in constructing a framework that offers a unified explanation for presuppositions and existential commitment. W…
A Uniform Treatment of Pragmatic Inferences in Simple and Complex Utterances and Sequences of Utterances
Daniel Marcu, Graeme Hirst
Drawing appropriate defeasible inferences has been proven to be one of the most pervasive puzzles of natural language processing and a recurrent problem in pragmatics. This paper p…
Collaborating on Referring Expressions
Peter A. Heeman, Graeme Hirst
This paper presents a computational model of how conversational participants collaborate in order to make a referring action successful. The model is based on the view of language…