Grounding Two Notions of Uncertainty in Modal Conditional Statements

We outline a method of grounding natural language conditional statements with modal operators of belief and possibility. Our work extends previous works on grounding natural language statements within cognitive agent. We focus on defining criteria on conditional statement’s suitability to agents kno...

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Published inIntelligent Information and Database Systems pp. 278 - 287
Main Authors Skorupa, Grzegorz, Katarzyniak, Radosław
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Berlin, Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg
SeriesLecture Notes in Computer Science
Subjects
Cognitive Agent
Conditional Statement
Epistemic Relation
Modal Operator
Possibility Operator
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Summary:We outline a method of grounding natural language conditional statements with modal operators of belief and possibility. Our work extends previous works on grounding natural language statements within cognitive agent. We focus on defining criteria on conditional statement’s suitability to agents knowledge. We argue that there are two types of modality based on the positioning of modal operator and that it is often impossible to distinguish between them. We propose formal model of agent’s mental state and criteria of choosing ‘correct’ statements that can be checked against that model. The work sets up a theoretical basis on further analytic and experimental analysis.
Bibliography:This paper was supported by Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education under grant no. N N519 407437.
ISBN:3642200389
9783642200380
ISSN:0302-9743
1611-3349
DOI:10.1007/978-3-642-20039-7_28