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"abstract": "We discuss how a deductive question-answering system can represent the beliefs or other cognitive states of users, of other (interacting) systems, and of itself.",
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"text": "We discuss how a deductive question-answering system can represent the beliefs or other cognitive states of users, of other (interacting) systems, and of itself.",
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"text": "In particular, we examine the representation of first-person beliefs of others (e.g., the ~/v.~'~ representation of a user'A belief that he himself is rich).",
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"text": "Such beliefs have as an essential component \"'quasi-indexical pronouns\"",
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"text": "(e.g., 'he himself'), and, hence, require for their analysis a method of representing these pronominal constructions and performing valid inferences with them. The theoretical justification for the approach to be discussed is the representation of nested \"'de ditto\" beliefs (e.g., the system's belief that user-I believes that system-2 believes that user-2 is rich). We discuss a computer implementation of these representations using the Semantic Network Processing System (SNePS) and an ATN parser-generator with a question-answering capability.",
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"text": "Consider a deductive knowledge-representation system whose data base contains information about various people (e.g., its users), other (perhaps interacting) systems, or even itself. In order for the system to learn more about these entities--to expand its \"'knowledge\" base--it should contain information about the beliefs (or desires, wants, or other cognitive states) of these entities, and it should be able to reason about them (cf. Moore 1977 , Creary 1979 , Wilks and Bien 1983 , Barnden 1983 , and Nilsson 1983 . Such a data base constitutes the \"knowledge\" (more accurately, the beliefs) of the system about these entities and about their beliefs.",
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"text": "Among the interrelated issues in knowledge representation that can be raised in such a context are those of multiple reference and the proper treatment of pronouns. For instance, is the person named 'Lucy' whom John believes to be rich the same as the person named 'Lucy' who is believed by the system to be young? How can the system (a) represent the person named 'Lucy' who is an object of its own belief without (b) confusing her with the person named 'Lucy' who is an object..of. John'~ belief, yet (c) be. ..able to merge its representations of those two people if it is later determined that they are the same? A solution to this problem turns out to be a side effect of a solution to a subtler problem in pro-nominal reference, namely, the proper treatment of pronouns occurring within belief-contexts.",
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"text": "Following Casta~eda (1967: 85) . an indic,tot is a personal or demonstrative pronoun or adverb used to make a strictly demonstrative reference. and a ouasi-indicator is an expression within a 'believes-that' context that represents a use of an indicator by another person. Consider the following statement by person A addressed to person at time ~ and ~lace ~: A says, \"I am going to kill you here now. Person ~, who overheard this, calls the police and says. \"A said .to ~ at ~ at A that he* was going to kill him* there* then*.\" The starred words are quasi-indicators representing uses by A of the indicators 'I'. 'you'. 'here', and 'now'.",
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"text": "There are two properties (among many others) of quasi-indicators that must be taken into account:",
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"text": "(i) They occur only within intentional contexts, and (ii) they cannot be replaced salva veritate by any co-referential expressions.",
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"text": "The general question is: \"How can we attribute indexical references to others?\" (Casta~eda 1980: 794) . The specific cases that we are concerned with are exemplified in the following scenario. Suppose that John has just been appointed editor of Byte. but that John does not yet know this. Further. suppose that, because of the well-publicized salary accompanying the office of Byte'A editor,",
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"text": "(1) John believes that the editor of Byte is rich.",
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"text": "And suppose finally that. because of severe losses in the stock market.",
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"text": "(2) John believes that he himself is not rich. Suppose that the system had information about each of the following: John's appointment as editor, Johnts (lack of) knowledge of this appointment. and John's belief about the wealth of the editor. We would not want the system to infer",
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"text": "(3) John believes that he* is rich because (2) is consistent with the system's information.",
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"text": "The 'he himself' in (2) is a quasiindicator, for (2) is the sentence that we use to express the belief that John would express as 'I am not rich'. Someone pointing to John. saying.",
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"text": "(4) He [i.e., that man there] believes that he* is not rich could just as well have said (2). The first 'he' in (4) is not a quasi-indicator: It occurs outside the believes-that context, and it can be replaced by 'John' or by 'the editor of Byte', salva veritare. But the 'he*' in )4) and the 'he himself' in (2) could not be thus replaced by 'the editor of Byte' -given our scenario -even though John is the editor of Byte. And if poor John also suffered from amnesia, it could not be replaced by 'John' either.",
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"text": "Entities such as the Lucy who is the object of John's belief are intentional (mental), hence intensional.",
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"text": "(Of. Frege 1892; Meinong 1904; Cas-ta~eda 1972; Rapaport 1978 Rapaport , 1981 Moreover, the entities represented in the data base are the objects of the ~y.~'~ beliefs, and, so, are also intentional, hence intensional. We represent sentences by means of propositional semantic networks, using the Semantic Network Processing System (SNePS; Shapiro 1979), which treats nodes as representing intensional concepts (of. Woods 1975 , Brachman 1977 , Maida and Shapiro 1982 .",
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"text": "We claim that in the absence of prior knowledge of co-referentiality, the entities within belief-contexts should be represented separately from entities outside the context that might be co-referential with them.",
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"text": "Suppose the system's beliefs include that a person named 'Lucy' is young and that John believes that a (possibly different) person named 'Lucy' is rich. We represent this with the network of The section of network dominated by nodes m7 and m9 is the system's de ditto representation of John's belief.",
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"text": "That is, m9 is the system'~ representation of a belief that John might express by 'Lucy is rich', and it is represented as one of John's beliefs.",
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"text": "Such nodes are considered as being in the system's representation of John's i\"belief space\". Non-dominated nodes, such as ml4, m12, m15, mS, and m3, are the system's representation of its own belief space (i.e., they can be thought of as the object of an implicit 'I believe that' case-frame; cf. Casta~eda 1975 : 121-22, Kant 1787 .",
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"text": "If it is later determined that the \"two\" Lucies are the same, then a node of coreferentiality would be added (m16, in Fig. 2 ).",
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"text": "someone named 'Lucy' is rich (mlS), and John's Lucy is the system's Lucy (m16).",
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"text": "Now consider the case where the system has no information about the \"content\" of John's belief, but does have information that John's belief is about the ~.7_~/.f.~'E Lucy. Thus, whereas John might express his belief as, 'Linus's sister is rich', the system would express it as, '(Lucy system) is believed by John to be rich' (where '(Lucy system)' is the system's Lucy). This is a de re representation of John's belief, and would be represented by node ml2 of Figure 3 .",
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"text": "The strategy of separating entities in different belief spaces is needed in order to satisfy the two main properties of quasi-indicators.",
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"text": "Consider the possible representations of sentence (3) in Figure 4 (adapted from Maida and Shapiro 1983: 316) . This suffers from three major problems.",
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"text": "First, it is ambiguous: It could be the representation of (3) or of (5) John believes that John is rich.",
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"text": "But, as we have seen, (3) and (5) express quite different propositions; thus, they should be separate items in the data base.",
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"text": "Second, Figure 4 cannot represent (5). For then we would have no easy or uniform way to represent (3) in the case where John does not know that he is named 'John': Figure 4 says that the person (m3) who is named 'John' and who believes m6, believes that that person is rich; and this would be false in the amnesia case.",
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"text": "John to be rich. Fig. 4 . A representation for \"John believes that he* is rich\" Third, Figure 4 cannot represent (3) either, for it does not adequately represent the quasiindexical nature of the 'he' in (3):",
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"text": "Finally, because of these representational inadequacies, the system would invalidly \"'infer\" (6iii) from (6i)-(6ii):",
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"text": "(ii) he = John (iii) John believes that John is rich. simply because premise (6i) would be represented by the same network as conclusion (6iii).",
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"text": "Rather, the general pattern for representing such sentences is illustrated in Figure 5 . The 'he*' in the English sentence is represented by node m2; its quasi-indexical nature is represented by means of node ml0. That nodes m2 and m5 must be distinct follows from our separation principle.",
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"text": "But, since m2 is the system's representation of Johnts representation of himself, it must be within the system's representation of John's belief space; this is accomplished via nodes ml0 and m9, representing John's belief that m2 is his \"selfrepresentation\".",
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