The acceptance relation and the specification of communicating agents

Author

Vieira, Renata ; Costa, A. C Rocha

Author_Institution

Federal Univ. of Rio Grandedo Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil

fYear

1993

fDate

12-14 May 1993

Firstpage

247

Lastpage

255

Abstract

This work presents the formalization of pragmatical notions based on the relation between agents and sentences of the language which they use to communicate to each other. The approach is based on R. Martin´s “Toward a Systematic Pragmatics” (1959). A pragmatical metalanguage expresses agent´s acceptance relation with an object language. Some set constructions are used to illustrate the definitions and make the ideas intuitive. Semantical and pragmatical notions are constructed based on this acceptance relation. Martin defends that some of these notions are closely similar to notions of subjective intension or connotation, having the advantage of being extensionals. The subjective accent of this approach to language and communication is appropriate to the problem of the specification of diversified communicating agents

Keywords

computational linguistics; cooperative systems; formal specification; natural language interfaces; acceptance relation; agents; communicating agent specification; connotation; diversified communicating agents; object language; pragmatical metalanguage; pragmatical notions; semantical notions; sentences; subjective intension; systematic pragmatics; Artificial intelligence; Books; Context; Logic; Natural languages; Speech analysis; Tin;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent and Cooperative Information Systems, 1993., Proceedings of International Conference on

Conference_Location

Rotterdam

Print_ISBN

0-8186-3135-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICICIS.1993.291764

Filename

291764