Contextual Reasoning

Contextual Reasoning (1992)

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by Fausto Giunchiglia

Venue:	EPISTEMOLOGIA, SPECIAL ISSUE ON I LINGUAGGI E LE MACCHINE
Citations:	68 - 4 self

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TITLE	Contextual Reasoning	user correction - Legacy Corrections
AUTHOR NAME	Fausto Giunchiglia	user correction
AUTHOR AFFIL	IRST- Istituto per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica	user correction
AUTHOR ADDR	38050 Povo- Trento, Italy; University of Trento, Via Inama 5, Trento, Italy	user correction
ABSTRACT	It is widely agreed on that most cognitive processes are contextual in the sense that they depend on the environment, or context, inside which they are carried on. Even concentrating on the issue of contextuality in reasoning, many different notions of context can be found in the Artificial Intelligence literature. Our intuition is that reasoning is usually performed on a subset of the global knowledge base. The notion of context is used as a means of formalizing this idea of localization. Roughly speaking, we take a context to be the set of facts used locally to prove a given goal plus the inference routines used to reason about them (which in general are different for different sets of facts). Our perspective is similar to that proposed in [McC87, McC91]. The goal of this paper is to propose an epistemologically adequate theory of reasoning with contexts. The emphasis is on motivations and intuitions, rather than on technicalities. The two basic definitions are reported i...	user correction - Legacy Corrections
YEAR	1992	user correction - Legacy Corrections
VENUE	EPISTEMOLOGIA, SPECIAL ISSUE ON I LINGUAGGI E LE MACCHINE	user correction
VENUE TYPE	JOURNAL	INFERENCE
PAGES	345--364	INFERENCE
VOLUME	345	INFERENCE
CITATIONS	21 found	ParsCit 1.0