Signs, search and communication : semiotics aspects of artificial intelligence : [a selection of papers presented at the conference Expert systems, culture and semiotics

Over the past few decades, the book series Linguistische Arbeiten [Linguistic Studies], comprising over 500 volumes, has made a significant contribution to the development of linguistic theory both in Germany and internationally. The series will continue to deliver new impulses for research and maintain the central insight of linguistics that progress can only be made in acquiring new knowledge about human languages both synchronically and diachronically by closely combining empirical and theoretical analyses. To this end, we invite submission of high-quality linguistic studies from all the central areas of general linguistics and the linguistics of individual languages which address topical questions, discuss new data and advance the development of linguistic theory. Signs, search and communication: Towards an empirical future for semiotics I SIGNS AND REPRESENTATIONS Semiosis, cognition, interpretation A triadic theory of perception Systems of logical representation and inference: An empiricist approach to cognitive science Semiotic primitives and conceptual representation of knowledge Semiotic aspects of neurally based representation of knowledge II ABDUCTION AND REASONING IN EXPERT SYSTEMS Human-like reasoning under uncertainty in expert systems Abduction: The creative process Expert systems and the abductive circle Can machines compensate for biased human reasoning? Case studies in medical decision making Procrustes, or the future of flexibility III COMMUNICATION WITH EXPERT SYSTEMS Believing, causing, intending: The basis for a hierarchy of sign concepts in the reconstruction of communication On knowledge representing interacting systems Implementing a sense of time in intelligent systems Towards an evaluation tool for natural language interfaces The linguistic analysis of expert texts Cooperative human-machine reasoning: Communication through the user interface Name index Subject index Addresses of the authors A selection of papers presented at the conference Expert Systems, Culture and Semiotics, held in Groningen, the Netherlands, December 1990. The volume is divided into three parts. The first part is about signs and representations, the second about reasoning and search, and the third about communicat From the point of view of Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) the time has come to establish a scientific field or discipline related to communication and interaction based on signs, that is to say symbols, signals, icons, etc.