In this paper we discuss the use of discourse context in spoken dialogue systems and argue that the knowledge of the domain, modelled with the help of dialogue topics is important...
This paper presents a method for automatically generating an association thesaurus from a text corpus, and demonstrates its application to information retrieval. The thesaurus gen...
This paper describes a novel semantic framework for an agent architecture. Drawing on Shoham's work on AGENT0 (Shoham 1993), we replace Shoham's modal logic semantics wi...
We will explore an approach to modular programming language descriptions and extensions in a denotational style. Based on a language core, language features are added stepwise on ...
Hybrid connectionist symbolic systems have been the subject of much recent research in AI. By focusing on the implementation of high-level human cognitive processes (e.g., rule-ba...