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A Formal Theory of Commonsense Psychology Andrew S. Gordon (University of Southern California)

A Formal Theory of Commonsense Psychology By Andrew S. Gordon (University of Southern California)

A Formal Theory of Commonsense Psychology by Andrew S. Gordon (University of Southern California)


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This book provides an in-depth exploration of human commonsense reasoning using formal logic in large-scale knowledge representation. Of special interest to artificial intelligence researchers, linguists, and cognitive and social psychologists, it serves as a foundation for humanlike artificial intelligence.

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A Formal Theory of Commonsense Psychology: How People Think People Think by Andrew S. Gordon (University of Southern California)

Commonsense psychology refers to the implicit theories that we all use to make sense of people's behavior in terms of their beliefs, goals, plans, and emotions. These are also the theories we employ when we anthropomorphize complex machines and computers as if they had humanlike mental lives. In order to successfully cooperate and communicate with people, these theories will need to be represented explicitly in future artificial intelligence systems. This book provides a large-scale logical formalization of commonsense psychology in support of humanlike artificial intelligence. It uses formal logic to encode the deep lexical semantics of the full breadth of psychological words and phrases, providing fourteen hundred axioms of first-order logic organized into twenty-nine commonsense psychology theories and sixteen background theories. This in-depth exploration of human commonsense reasoning for artificial intelligence researchers, linguists, and cognitive and social psychologists will serve as a foundation for the development of humanlike artificial intelligence.

About Andrew S. Gordon (University of Southern California)

Andrew S. Gordon is Research Associate Professor of Computer Science and Director of Interactive Narrative Research at the Institute for Creative Technologies at the University of Southern California. His research advances technologies for automatically analyzing and generating narrative interpretations of experiences. A central aim of his research is the large-scale formalization of commonsense knowledge, and reasoning with these formalizations using logical abduction. He is the author of the 2004 book, Strategy Representation: An Analysis of Planning Knowledge. Jerry R. Hobbs is Chief Scientist for Natural Language Processing at the Information Sciences Institute and a Research Professor at the University of Southern California. He has numerous publications in computational linguistics, artificial intelligence, knowledge representation, information extraction, and discourse analysis. He was editor of the book Formal Theories of the Commonsense World (1985) and author of Literature and Cognition (1990). He is a fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence, a past president of the Association for Computational Linguistics and a recipient of the organization's Lifetime Achievement Award.

Table of Contents

Part I. Commonsense Psychology: 1. Commonsense psychology and psychology; 2. Commonsense psychology and computers; 3. Formalizing commonsense psychology; 4. Commonsense psychology and language; Part II. Background Theories: 5. Eventualities and their structure; 6. Traditional set theory; 7. Substitution, typical elements, and instances; 8. Logic reified; 9. Functions and sequences; 10. Composite entities; 11. Defeasibility; 12. Scales; 13. Arithmetic; 14. Change of state; 15. Causality; 16. Time; 17. Event structure; 18. Space; 19. Persons; 20. Modality; Part III. Commonsense Psychology Theories: 21. Knowledge management; 22. Similarity comparisons; 23. Memory; 24. Envisioning; 25. Explanation; 26. Managing expectations; 27. Other agent reasoning; 28. Goals; 29. Goal themes; 30. Threats and threat detection; 31. Plans; 32. Goal management; 33. Execution envisionment; 34. Causes of failure; 35. Plan elements; 36. Planning modalities; 37. Planning goals; 38. Plan construction; 39. Plan adaptation; 40. Design; 41. Decisions; 42. Scheduling; 43. Monitoring; 44. Execution modalities; 45. Execution control; 46. Repetitive execution; 47. Mind-body interaction; 48. Observation of plan executions; 49. Emotions.

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NPB9781107151000
9781107151000
1107151007
A Formal Theory of Commonsense Psychology: How People Think People Think by Andrew S. Gordon (University of Southern California)
New
Hardback
Cambridge University Press
2017-09-07
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