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Research and Development

Category: Context

Alignment and Contextual Action Selection

Introduction The challenge addressed here is one of ensuring that relevant rules, laws, and regulations are loaded into agents' "working memories" when these systems encounter a wide variety of situations. By being able to search for and to load contextually relevant resources from large libraries, agents could be aligned with and select actions in accordance […]

Multi-agent Question-answering Systems

Introduction Agents representing ideological stances, positions, perspectives, or schools of thought can serve in multi-agent systems which generate encyclopedic answers to end-users' complex questions. Agent Design, Reuse and Selection Large language models can generate content while role-playing, or impersonating, characters and personas (Shanahan, McDonell, & Reynolds, 2023). They can be fine-tuned using the works of […]

The Contextual Recommendation of Advice and Wisdom

Introduction Wise people share advice and wisdom in the forms of allegories, anecdotes, aphorisms, apologues, fables, folklore, historical analogues, jokes, literature, lyrics, parables, poems, proverbs, quotations, stories, and witticisms. It is a multidisciplinary challenge to build artificial intelligence systems capable of these tasks. Towards solving this challenge, a new approach is presented: story-based search and […]

The History of Ideas

Introduction Essays in History of Ideas by Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Great Chain of Being by Arthur O. Lovejoy, Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas by Quentin Skinner, A Companion to Intellectual History edited by Richard Whatmore and Brian Young, What is Intellectual History? by Richard Whatmore, Modelling the History of Ideas by […]

Higher-order Theory of Mind

Art Intention and Interpretation edited by Gary Iseminger, Art, Intention, and Conversation by Noël Carroll, The Perception of Intention by Verena Dasser, Ib Ulbaek and David Premack, Design as Communication: Exploring the Validity and Utility of Relating Intention to Interpretation by Nathan Crilly, David Good, Derek Matravers and P. John Clarkson, Intention, Interpretation, and Contemporary […]

Computational Memetic Analysis

Memes The Meme Machine by Susan J. Blackmore, Understanding the Emergence of Conventions in Multi-agent Systems by Adam Walker and Michael J. Wooldridge and On Selfish Memes: Culture as Complex Adaptive System by Hokky Situngkir. GlossaryMemeMemetics Metaphors The Metaphorical Structure of the Human Conceptual System by George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Mental Representation, Conceptual Spaces […]

Computational Modeling of Diachronic Semantics

Introduction Change Summarization of Diachronic Scholarly Paper Collections by Semantic Evolution Analysis by Naman Paharia, Muhammad S. M. Pozi and Adam Jatowt, Survey of Computational Approaches to Lexical Semantic Change Detection by Nina Tahmasebi, Lars Borin and Adam Jatowt and Diachronic Word Embeddings and Semantic Shifts: A Survey by Andrey Kutuzov, Lilja Ovrelid, Terrence Szymanski […]

Narrative, Context and Decision-making

Frame The Framing of Decisions and the Psychology of Choice by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, The Framing of Decisions and the Rationality of Choice by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, Rational Choice and the Framing of Decisions by Amos Tversky and Daniel Kahneman, Contextual Effects and the Influence of the Frame on Decision Making […]

Mental Representations of Audiences

Introduction The Psychology of Written Composition edited by Carl Bereiter and Marlene Scardamalia, A Synthesis of Social Cognition and Writing Research by Curtis J. Bonk and Social Cognition and Written Communication by Donald L. Rubin. GlossaryCommunicationSocial CognitionRelated ContentEducation and the Cognitive Science of WritingHigher-order Theory of MindModeling and Predicting Audience ResponseModeling Users and Comprehension to […]

Recurrent Neural Networks

Introduction Efficient Simulation of Finite Automata by Neural Nets by Noga Alon, A. K. Dewdney and Teunis J. Ott, Learning the Structure of Event Sequences by Axel Cleeremans and James L. McClelland, Recurrent Neural Networks and Finite Automata by Hava T. Siegelmann, A Comparative Study of Recurrent Neural Network Architectures on Learning Temporal Sequences by […]