Embodied Context Semantics

  • Authors:
  • Ander Altuna

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Computing, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK and Infotech Unit, Robotiker-Tecnalia, Zamudio, Spain

  • Venue:
  • Semantics in Data and Knowledge Bases
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

It is a desirable feature of knowledge bases that they are able to accommodate and reason across the different perspectives that may exist on a particular theory or situation. With the aim of obtaining an adequate logic for this problem, the knowledge representation community has extensively researched into the formalization of contexts as first-class citizens. However, most of the proposed logics of context only deal with the propositional case, which for many applications is not enough, and those tackling the quantificational case face many counterintuitive restrictions. In this paper, we present a model-theoretic semantics that, based on a cognitive approach to the notions of context and meaning, succeeds in addressing the quantificational case in a flexible manner that overcomes the limitations of the previous initiatives. The expressive power of the system will be evaluated in the paper by formalizing some of the benchmark examples that can be found in the literature.