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Artificial Believers: The Ascription of Belief
Afzal Ballim
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.
288 pages, illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 1, 1991 |
| ISBN13 | 9780805804539 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Inc |
| Pages | 288 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 581 g |
| Language | English |
