Artificial Believers: The Ascription of Belief

by Yorick Wilks and Afzal Ballim

Modeling of individual beliefs is essential to the computer understanding of natural languages. Phenomena at all levels -- syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic -- cannot be fully analyzed in the absence of models of a hearer and of the hearer's model of other believers. The heart of this text is the presentation of an artificial intelligence (AI) program intended to simulate certain aspects of a human believer. This book provides a prolog program, Viewgen,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138963917
• ISBN13: 9781138963917
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"