{"product_id":"artificial-believers-afzal-ballim-9781138963917","title":"Artificial Believers: The Ascription of Belief","description":"\u003cp\u003eModeling of individual beliefs is essential to the computer understanding of natural languages. Phenomena at all levels -- syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic -- cannot be fully analyzed in the absence of models of a hearer and of the hearer's model of other believers. The heart of this text is the presentation of an artificial intelligence (AI) program intended to simulate certain aspects of a human believer. This book provides a prolog program, \u003ci\u003eViewgen, \u003c\/i\u003e that maintains belief structures about the world and other believers, and is able to ascribe beliefs to others without direct evidence by using a form of default reasoning. The authors contend that a plausible model such as this can -- in the best cognitive science tradition -- shed light on the long-standing philosophical problem of what belief is. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The issues presented here will be of considerable interest to an informed general reader as well as those with a background in any of the disciplines that make up what is now called cognitive science: philosophy, linguistics, psychology, neuropsychology, and also AI itself.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Afzal Ballim, Yorick Wilks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1138963917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781138963917\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/16\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.89lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d","brand":"Afzal Ballim","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44173331398911,"sku":"9781138963917","price":52.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_28684e7b-c4f2-4524-8ad3-38ff1eaa2298.jpg?v=1689792229","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/artificial-believers-afzal-ballim-9781138963917","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}