What Is AI, Anyway?

Discourse Representation Theory and the Semantics of Natural Languages: Contribution to a Panel on "Discourse Theory and Speech Acts" TINLAP3

[1] Is there yet any serious discourse theory with testable computational and empirical consequences? [2] What phenomena ought a processing theory of discourse understanding/generation to address itself that are not already being attended to currently? [3] What aspects of discourse are language problems and which are general AI/KR problems? [4] What makes a theory of discourse a processing theo...

Interaction and Resistance: The Recognition of Intentions in New Human-Computer Interaction

Just as AI has moved away from classical AI, human-computer interaction (HCI) must move away from what I call ‘good old fashioned HCI’ to ‘new HCI’ – it must become a part of cognitive systems research where HCI is one case of the interaction of intelligent agents (we now know that interaction is essential for intelligent agents anyway). For such interaction, we cannot just ‘analyze the data’, ...

Just what is aggregation anyway ?

What Price Animal Health - And Whose Problem is it Anyway ?

Are leaf functional traits ‘invariant’ with plant size and what is ‘invariance’ anyway?

what is ‘invariance’ anyway? Charles A. Price*, Ian J. Wright, David D. Ackerly, € Ulo Niinemets, Peter B. Reich and Erik J. Veneklaas School of Plant Biology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Western Australia 6009, Australia; Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales 2109, Australia; Department of Integrative Biology, University of California, 306...