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CONTEXT
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Formal Structure of Ecological Contexts
This paper presents the outline of a formal ontology of contexts. More specifically, it deals with the ontology of ecological contexts (niches, habitats, environments, ambients) an...
Barry Smith, Achille C. Varzi
CONTEXT
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Putting Similarity Assessments into Context: Matching Functions with the User's Intended Operations
This paper presents a practical application of context for the evaluation of semantic similarity. The work is based on a new model for the assessment of semantic similarity among ...
M. Andrea Rodríguez, Max J. Egenhofer
CONTEXT
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Ecological Interfaces: Extending the Pointing Paradigm by Visual Context
Following the ecological approach to visual perception, this paper presents an innovative framework for the design of multimodal systems. The proposal emphasises the role of the vi...
Antonella De Angeli, Laurent Romary, Frederic Wolf...
CONTEXT
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Counterfactual Reasoning by Means of a Calculus of Narrative Context
Abstract. The basic Event Calculus is extended by a Calculus of Narrative Context, to allow for reasoning about counterfactuals. Different hypothetical courses of events are disti...
Rolf Nossum, Michael Thielscher
CONTEXT
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Contextual Inference in Computational Semantics
Appeared in: P. Bouquet, P. Br´ezillon, L. Serafini, M. Benerecetti, F. Castellani (Eds.), 2nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONT...
Christof Monz
CONTEXT
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Pragmatic Roots of Context
When modelling complex systems one can not include all the causal factors, but one has to settle for partial models. This is alright if the factors left out are either so constant...
Bruce Edmonds
CONTEXT
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Contexts, Domains, and Software
We survey some issues that relate to context dependence and context sensitivity in the development of software, particularly in relation to information systems by defining a range...
Alfs T. Berztiss
CONTEXT
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Dynamics and Automaticity of Context: A Cognitive Modeling Approach
AI and psychological approaches to context are contrasted and the dynamic and automatic nature of the continuous context change in human cognition is emphasized. A dynamic theory o...
Boicho N. Kokinov
CONTEXT
1999
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
The Context-Dependency of Temporal Reference in Event Semantics
Abstract. Temporal reference in natural language is inherently context dependent: what counts as a moment in one context may be structurally analysed in another context, and vice v...
Fabio Pianesi, Achille C. Varzi