Modeling and Using Context

This volume contains the papers presented at the Second International and - terdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context (CONTEXT'99), held in Trento (Italy) from 9 to 11 September 1999. CONTEXT'99 is the second in the CONTEXT series. The rst was held in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) in 1997. The CONTEXT conference series is meant to provide an interdisciplinary - rum where researchers can exchange ideas, methodologies, and results on c- text, and is increasingly becoming an important reference for all people doing research on context. This is testi ed by the larger number of research areas that are represented at CONTEXT'99 (in particular, Philosophy and Cognitive Psychology were not signi cantly present at the rst conference), and by the number and quality of submitted papers. Speci cally, we received 118 papers, mostly of good or excellent quality. Among them, 33 (28%) have been accepted as full papers, and 21 as short papers. We think it is fair to say that the 54 papers collected in this volume provide a signi cant picture of the international research on context currently going on. The notion of context plays an important role in many areas, both theoretical and applied, such as Formal Logic, Arti cial Intelligence, Philosophy, Pragm- ics, Computational Linguistics, Computer Science, Cognitive Psychology.

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Full Papers.- Strawson on Intended Meaning and Context.- Epistemic Context, Defeasible Inference and Conversational Implicature.- An Implemented Context System that Combines Belief Reasoning, Metaphor-Based Reasoning and Uncertainty Handling.- Pragmatic Reasoning: Inferring Contexts.- A Model of Context Adapted to Domain-Independent Machine Translation.- Three Forms of Contextual Dependence.- Context Representation for Dialogue Management.- Ecological Interfaces: Extending the Pointing Paradigm by Visual Context.- Formal Context and Morphological Analysis.- The Pragmatic Roots of Context.- Non-acceptances: Re- or Un-creating Context?.- Modelling (Un)Bounded Beliefs.- A Context-Based Logic for Distributed Knowledge Representation and Reasoning.- Independence from Context Information Provided by Spatial Signature Learning in a Natural Object Localization Task.- Contextual Dependence and the Epistemic Foundations of Dynamic Semantics.- Dynamics and Automaticity of Context: A Cognitive Modeling Approach.- A Mental Space Account for Speaker's Empathy: Japanese Profiling Identity vs. English Shading Identity.- On the Role of Context in Relevance-Based Accessibility Ranking of Candidate Referents.- Contextual Inference in Computational Semantics.- Contexts and Views in Object-Oriented Languages.- Objective and Cognitive Context.- Dynamics Between Contextual Knowledge and Proceduralized Context.- A Context-Based Audiovisual Representation Model for Audiovisual Information Systems.- Putting Similarity Assessments into Context: Matching Functions with the User's Intended Operations.- Presupposition, Implicature and Context in Text Understanding.- The Formal Structure of Ecological Contexts.- Type Theoretic Foundations for Context, Part 1: Contexts as Complex Type-TheoreticObjects.- Violation Contexts and Deontic Independence.- A Model of Explicit Context Representation and Use for Intelligent Agents.- Context-Scanning Strategy in Temporal Reasoning.- The Role of Context in the Analysis and Design of Agent Programs.- Context and Supercontext.- The Role of Context in Interpreting Perceived Events as Actions.- Short Papers.- Contexts, Domains, and Software.- Contextual Data and Domain Knowledge for Incorporation in Knowledge Discovery Systems.- The Differential (?) Processing of Literal and Nonliteral Speech Acts : A Psycholinguistic Approach.- Open Theories and Abduction for Context and Accommodation.- Context as Fuzzy Degrees of Acceptability for Knowledge Base Integrity.- Building Context with Intonation.- Parrot-Talk Requires Multiple Context Dimensions.- Contextual Divorces: Towards a Framework for Identifying Critical Context Issues in Collaborative-Argumentation System Design.- The Role of Context in Pronominal Reference to Higher Order Entities in English and Norwegian.- Connectionist Analysis and Creation of Context for Natural Language Understanding and Knowledge Management.- The Notion of Context in Organisational Memories.- The Effect of Context Complexity on the Memorisation of Objects.- Effects of Discourse Context on Inference Computation During Comprehension.- Counterfactual Reasoning by Means of a Calculus of Narrative Context.- Context and Decision Graphs for Incident Management on a Subway Line.- Using Context to Guide Information Search for Preventive Quality Management.- The Context-Dependency of Temporal Reference in Event Semantics.- How Context Contributes to Metaphor Understanding.- Exploiting Context in Gesture Recognition.- The Use of Context in the Analysis of Negative Concord and N-words.- Aspects of Context for Understanding Multi-modal Communication.