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Artificial Believers

By Afzal Ballim

Artificial Believers

By Afzal Ballim

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Modeling of individual beliefs is essential to the computer understanding of natural languages. Phenomena at all levels -- syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic -- cannot be fully analyzed in the absence of models of a hearer and of the hearer's model of other believers. The heart of this text is the presentation of an artificial intelligence (AI) program intended to simulate certain aspects of a human believer. This book provides a prolog program, Viewgen, that maintains belief structures about the world and other believers, and is able to ascribe beliefs to others without direct evidence by using a form of default reasoning. The authors contend that a plausible model such as this can -- in the best cognitive science tradition -- shed light on the long-standing philosophical problem of what belief is. The issues presented here will be of considerable interest to an informed general reader as well as those with a background in any of the disciplines that make up what is now called cognitive science: philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neuropsychology, and also AI itself.
Product details
Edition:
illustrated
Number of Pages:
300
Release Date:
1991-10-01
Publication Date:
1991-09-01
Publisher:
Psychology Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
08946478140805804536
ISBN13:
9780805804539
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
588 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
21 cm
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