Paper Info
Title
The Empirical Semantics Approach to Communication Structure Learning and Usage: Individualistic Vs. Systemic Views.
Abstract
In open systems of artificial agents, the meaning of communication in part emerges from ongoing interaction processes. In this paper, we present the empirical semantics approach to inductive derivation of communication semantics that can be used to derive this emergent semantics of communication from observations. The approach comes in two complementary variants: One uses social systems theory, focusing on system expectation structures and global utility maximisation, and the other is based on symbolic interactionism, focusing on the viewpoint and utility maximisation of the individual agent. Both these frameworks make use of the insight that the most general meaning of agent utterances lies in their expectable consequences in terms of observable events, and thus they strongly demarcate themselves from traditional approaches to the semantics and pragmatics of agent communication languages.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2007
JASSS-THE JOURNAL OF ARTIFICIAL SOCIETIES AND SOCIAL SIMULATION
Agent Communication,Open Multiagent Systems,Social Systems Theory,Symbolic Interactionism,Pragmatism,Computational Pragmatics
Field
DocType
Volume
Pragmatics,Systems theory,Cognitive science,Computer science,Computational semantics,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Open system (systems theory),Management science,Symbolic interactionism,Pragmatism,Semantics,Individualism
Journal
10
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1460-7425
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
17
8
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Matthias Nickles140737.44
Michael Rovatsos276773.71
Marco Schmitt381.40
Wilfried Brauer4969299.36
Felix Fischer542738.96
Thomas Malsch68710.69
Kai Paetow741.13
Gerhard Weiss81100130.79