Conversation, iterative knowledge and intersubjectivity

Intersubjectivity and Sentiment: From Language to Knowledge

Intersubjectivity is an important concept in psychology and sociology. It refers to sharing conceptualizations through social interactions in a community and using such shared conceptualization as a resource to interpret things that happen in everyday life. In this work, we make use of intersubjectivity as the basis to model shared stance and subjectivity for sentiment analysis. We construct an...

Focusing , Intersubjectivity , and “ Therapeutic Intersubjectivity ”

Non-Conversation-Based Zero Knowledge∗

In a zero-knowledge proof system Π a honest verifier V accepts or rejects a proof basing its decision on the common input, its randomness and the exchanged messages. Π is conversation based if an observer D guesses V ′ decision only knowing the common input and the exchanged messages and without knowing V ’s randomness. In this paper we prove a separation between conversation-based and non-conv...

Vygotsky and intersubjectivity

Lev Vygotsky’s statement on the development of the higher psychological functions— from the interpsychological form to the intrapsychological form—is discussed in the article. I describe the changing of Vygotsky’s interest from nonverbal to verbal communication and his emphasis on verbal communication as an only kind of interpsychological function. I then analyze works that show the importance ...

Mirror neurons and intersubjectivity