In Relevance: Communication and Cognition, we outline a new approach to the study of
human communication, one based on a general view of human cognition. Attention and …

1.1 Motivation Perhaps the central concern of artificial intelligence is to devise methods for
representing and reasoning about actions and pians. Whereas plan synthesis has received …

It is difficult to clearly define the symbolic and subsymbolic paradigms; each is usually
described by its tendencies rather than any one definitive property. Symbolic processing is …

The modern study of cognition finds itself with two widely endorsed but seemingly
incongruous theoretical paradigms. The first of these, inspired by formal logic and the digital …

This paper shows how agents' choice in communicative action can be designed to mitigate
the effect of their resource limits in the context of particular features of a collaborative …

Computational approaches to dialogue generally fall into two categories of computational
task: dialogue modeling and dialogue management. Dialogue modeling refers to …

Some of our knowledge about particular concepts is acquired by active inquiry in the form of
question asking and answering. For example, suppose that a group of adults were having a …

This study tested a model of question answering, called QUEST, which accounts for answers
to open-class questions. QUEST specifies the information sources that furnish answers to a …

This chapter focuses on four questions which help to understand the presupposition
accommodation as Lewis defines it. The first is a question about how we recognize that an …

The human personality is a sacred thing; one dare not violate it nor fj infringe its bounds,
while at the same time the greatest good is in jr communion with others.(Durkheim 1915 …