Situation Theory and Its Applications
by Aczel, Peter; Israel, David (CON)Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1993-09-01
Publisher(s): Stanford Univ Center for the Study
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Summary
Situation theory is the result of an interdisciplinary effort to create a full-fledged theory of information. Created by scholars and scientists from cognitive science, computer science and AI, linguistics, logic, philosophy, and mathematics, it aims to provide a common set of tools for the analysis of phenomena from all these fields. Unlike Shannon-Weaver type theories of information, which are purely quantitative theories, situation theory aims at providing tools for the analysis of the specific content of a situation (signal, message, data base, statement, or other information-carrying situation). The question addressed is not how much information is carried, but what information is carried.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Situation Theory | |
| Constraints, channels, and the flow of information | |
| Extended Kamp notation: a graphical notation for situation theory | |
| States of affairs without parameters | |
| Logical Applications | |
| Labelled deductive systems and situation theory | |
| Events and processes in situation semantics | |
| Nonmonotonic projection, causation and induction | |
| Modal situation theory | |
| Linguistic Applications | |
| Generalized quantifiers and resource situations | |
| Situation theory and cooperative action | |
| Propositional and non-propositional attitudes | |
| Episodic logic: a situational logic for natural language processing | |
| A situation-theoric formalization of definite description interpretation in plan elaboration dialogues | |
| A situation-theoretic representation of text meaning ; anaphora, quantification, and negation | |
| Name index | |
| Subject index | |
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