Abstract Negotiation is a key form of interaction in multi-agent systems. enables agents to come mutual agreement about goal or plan action. Current negotiation approaches use traditional protocols which do not capture the normative meaning interactions and often restrict agent autonomy. These also have difficulty specifying accountability. This paper seeks address this gap maintaining autonomy...

In this contribution we analyze the effect that mutual information has on the actual performance of efficient negotiation methods. Specifically, we start by proposing the theoretical notion of Abstract Negotiation Method (ANM) as a map from the negotiation domain in itself, for any utility profile of the parties. ANM can face both direct and iterative negotiations, since we show that ANM class ...

Recently, there has been great interest both in the development of cross-linguistically applicable annotation schemes and in the application of syntactic parsers at web scale to create parsebanks of online texts. The combination of these two trends to create massive, consistently annotated parsebanks in many languages holds enormous potential for the quantitative study of many linguistic phenom...

This paper presents a Chinese dependency syntax for treebanking. The syntax contains 13 word classes and 34 dependency types. A format of treebank based on the syntax is also proposed for the applications of computational and general linguistic research. Some experiments show that the treebank based on the proposed dependency syntax can be used for training and evaluating the dependency parser ...

In this paper I propose that the principles of Emergent Grammar (Hopper 1987, 1998) can be applied to lexical semantics. I discuss three instances of discourse semantics to show why an emergent view of semantics can provide a realistic account of semantics in discourse. The three cases are: 1) emergence and negotiation of meaning due to participant interaction in discourse; 2) (re)distribution ...

This paper playfully appropriates the metaphor of delusional states to frame a discussion hyperreal documents present in Disney theme parks and resorts. A brief overview literature on delusion individuals transitions into collective formation positive illusions introduce concept play. The conceptual framework play culture, or ludics, is presented understand cultural production meaning, which fu...

As digital techonology advances, geographically distant learners have been engaging in cross-cultural communication and negotiation via telecollaborative projects. Research has shown that of meaning is crucial for effective these scenarios, nonetheless, more studies are needed to investigate other types negotiation, given its importance establishing cooperation. This paper aims at exploring the...