CUBISM: Belief, anomaly and social constructs

Wilks, Yorick; Clark, Micah; By, Tomas; Dalton, Adam; Perera, Ian

doi:10.1075/is.15.3.02wil

Article published In: Mental Model Ascription by Intelligent Agents
Edited by Marjorie McShane
[Interaction Studies 15:3] 2014
► pp. 388–403

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CUBISM: Belief, anomaly and social constructs

Yorick Wilks | Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA

Micah Clark | Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA

Tomas By | Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA

Adam Dalton | Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA

Ian Perera | Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC), USA

Published online: 6 February 2015

https://doi.org/10.1075/is.15.3.02wil

We introduce the CUBISM system for the analysis and deep understanding of multi-participant dialogues. CUBISM brings together two typically separate forms of discourse analysis: semantic analysis and sociolinguistic analysis. In the paper proper, we describe and illustrate major components of the CUBISM system, and discuss the challenge posed by the system’s ultimate purpose, which is to automatically detect anomalous changes in participants’ expressed or implied beliefs about the world and each other, including shifts toward or away from cultural and community norms.

Keywords: belief modeling, natural language understanding , sociolinguistics, discourse analysis

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