Gilles Bibeau est anthropologue, philosophe et linguiste ; professeur émérite à l’Université de Montréal. A mené des recherches dans plusieurs pays d’Afrique, d’Amérique latine (notamment au Brésil Pérou), ainsi qu’au Canada en l’Inde. Au Québec, il a fait études ethniques sur les transformations structures familiales l'identité chez migrants d'origine indienne, africaine antillaise, le rôle ég...

This paper outlines a formal computational semantics and pragmatics of the major speech act types. A theory of force is given that allows us to give a semantically and pragmaticaly motivated taxonomy of speech acts. The relevance of the communication theory to complex distributed artificial intellince, DAI, systems is described. l Introduction In a system that engages in a dialogue with a user ...

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We describe a comprehensive framework for narrative understanding based on Episodic Logic (EL). This situational logic was developed and implemented as a semantic representation and commonsense knowledge representation that would serve the full range of interpretive and inferential needs of general NLU. The most distinctive feature of EL is its natural language-like expressiveness. It allows fo...

transfusions in the seventeenth century began by doing replacement transfusions. Eutyphronus remarked, ‘ ‘It is foolish to transfuse a patient without previous blood letting, because this would not reduce the strain on the body.” This operation, although it had a few successes, caused quite a few deaths. This is easily understood since the transfusions were usually done with animal blood. After...

Given the range of systems, tools, and techniques discussed in this collection, it appears that the editors have adopted quite a broad definition of the notion of 'intelligence.' Although the book contains descriptions of computer systems that would be conventionally classified as intelligent--those that aim to develop models of their users--it also includes descriptions of sophisticated tools ...