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[Handbook of Pragmatics M2] 2022
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Artificial intelligence

Published online: 3 October 2022
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Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 3.The physical symbol system hypothesis
  • 4.Paradigms for the representation of knowledge
    • 4.1State-space search
    • 4.2Logic-based formalisms
    • 4.3Semantic network formalisms and frames
    • 4.4Rule-based formalisms
  • 5.Linguistic symbol manipulation in semantics and pragmatics
    • 5.1Semantics
    • 5.2Knowledge and intentions
    • 5.3Utterances in context
    • 5.4Modeling the user
      • 5.4.1User modeling and dialog systems
      • 5.4.2Dimensions of user models
      • 5.4.3Construction of a user model
      • 5.4.4Instantiating the user model: Collecting evidence in dialog
    • 5.5Generating discourse
  • 6.Epilogue
  • Note
  • References
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