311 research outputs found
Bilgisayar profesörü felsefeyle ne yapar?
No full textBilkent Üniversitesi'nde bu yıl [2003] açılan Felsefe Bölümü’nün başkanlığını yürüten ve ana ilgi alanı yapay zekâ olan Prof. Dr. Varol Akman, yapay zekâyla felsefenin ilişkisini ve Felsefe Bölümü'nün özelliklerini anlattı. (An interview published in Bilkent Magazine about the then new Bilkent Philosophy Department.
Dashes As Typographical Cues For The Information Structure (Extended Abstract)
No full text) Bilge Say and Varol Akman Department of Computer Engineering and Information Science Faculty of Engineering, Bilkent University Bilkent, Ankara 06533, Turkey Phone: [90] (312) 266--4133 (secretary) Fax: [90] (312) 266--4126 fsay,[email protected] Conference Topic: Information-based approaches to syntax, semantics, and pragmatics of natural language Accepted for presentation at ITALLC 98. Please send all correspondence to the second author. We take em-dash as our sample punctuation mark and examine its usage from a discourse perspective, using sentences from well-known corpora. We particularly comment on how dashes can give hints on information structure, focus, and anaphora. Throughout the paper Discourse Representation Theory is used as a framework. Keywords: Punctuation, Discourse, Discourse Representation Theory, Information Structure 1 Introduction To the initial onlooker, punctuation marks and topic/focus structure of an orthographic sentence seem to be unrelated..
Specificity, Automatic Designation, and `I' Varol Akman and Aylin Koca
No full textThis paper studies the context-dependence of the first-person indexical `I,' while attempting to make the identifiabilitycriteria for specificity and Thus, Jrgensen (2000:146) notes that the term has been used to drawatleast four differentdistinctions:(i) whether the speaker believes the referenttobeunique# (ii) whether the speaker knows the identityofthe referent#(iii) whether the speaker wants to express a generalization, and(iv) whether the speaker believes the identityof the referenttobeimportant. It is known that several allegedly sound descriptions of specificitymentioned in the literature fail to be adequate on their own in covering all conditions of the notion. A prolific author contributing to recentliterature on specificity, von Heusinger (2002:2) explicates assorted characterizations of this notion. (See Journal of Pragmatics,vol. 19, no. 3, for a special issue on specificity,guest-edited by him and identifiedby def spec def non-spec indef spec indef non-spec speaker + -- + -- hearer + + -- -- Table1 The `identifiability' criteria for definiteness and specificity(Legend: def definite, spec specific) definiteness clearer for this important indexical. Having been influenced by John Perry's work on indexicals, we'll show that this (seemingly) clearest case of an indexical poses a difficult
Context Representation for the Semantic Web
No full textThe unambiguous and effective delivery of data and knowledge on the Web relies heavily on the correct representation and understanding of the associated contexts. However, the current way of encoding data and knowledge on the Web is largely ad hoc. Contexts are often embedded in the application program or are implied by the application- or community-specific agreements. This makes the linking and reusing of data and knowledge, and thus the integration of Web applications, a difficult problem. Therefore, building the architectural support for contexts is one of the major challenges for the Web, and in particular, for the Semantic Web. In this paper, we propose a framework for contexts that provides formal and explicit representations for the usually implicit contextual assumptions of data and knowledge on the Web. This is done by supporting the description of logic institutions, relations of contexts, and provenance. Our framework is able to tackle some critical issues for extending Web as a "Social Machine", such as, permitting different views on the same data, faithful knowledge integration and situation awareness
BRUCE EDMONDS and VAROL AKMAN
No full textthis paper is that `indexicality' is a characteristic, privileged only to natural languag
Proceedings of the First Turkish Conference on AI and Artificial Neural Networks
No full textThis is the proceedings of the "1st Turkish Conference on AI and ANNs," K. Oflazer, V. Akman, H. A. Guvenir, and U. Halici (editors). The conference was held at Bilkent University, Bilkent, Ankara on 25-26 June 1992.
Language of contributions: English and Turkish
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