Artificial Believers

The Ascription of Belief

Afzal Ballim, Yorick Wilks (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

1991
Psychology Press (Verlag)
978-0-8058-0453-9 (ISBN)

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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.

Ballim, Afzal; Wilks, Yorick

Contents: Introduction. Preliminaries on the Nature of Belief. Belief Ascription. Experiments in Belief. Global Issues: Reasoning with Viewpoints. Further Extensions and Speculations.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	13.10.1991
Verlagsort	Philadelphia
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	690 g
Themenwelt	Informatik ► Theorie / Studium ► Künstliche Intelligenz / Robotik
ISBN-10	0-8058-0453-6 / 0805804536
ISBN-13	978-0-8058-0453-9 / 9780805804539
Zustand	Neuware