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Pragmatic Reasoning: Inferring Contexts

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Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT 1999)

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Pragmatic reasoning is defined as the process of finding the intended meaning(s) of the given, and it is suggested that this amounts to the process of inferring the appropriate context(s) in which to interpret the given. This suggestion is illustrated by examples from natural language understanding and visual object recognition. A formal, model-theoretic, definition of pragmatic reasoning is then presented and discussed.

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  1. Applied Logic Group Department of Computer Science, Queen Mary and West field College University of London, London, E1 4NS, UK

    John Bell

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  1. University of Trento, DISA, 5, via Inama, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Paolo Bouquet  & Massimo Benerecetti  & 

  2. IRST-ITC, Pante di Povo, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Luciano Serafini

  3. University Paris VI, LIP6 4, Place Jussieu, F-75252, Paris Cedex 05, France

    Patrick Brézillon

  4. University of Trento, 26, via Verdi, I-38050, Trento, Italy

    Francesca Castellani

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Bell, J. (1999). Pragmatic Reasoning: Inferring Contexts. In: Bouquet, P., Benerecetti, M., Serafini, L., Brézillon, P., Castellani, F. (eds) Modeling and Using Context. CONTEXT 1999. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1688. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-48315-2_4

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