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Natural language reasoning plays an increasingly important role in improving language models' ability to solve complex language understanding tasks. An interesting use case for reasoning is the resolution of context-dependent ambiguity. But…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Stefan F. Schouten , Peter Bloem , Ilia Markov , Piek Vossen

The Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) community often highlights the social context of an interaction as a key consideration when designing, implementing, and evaluating robot behavior. Unfortunately, researchers use the term "social context"…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sydney Thompson , Kate Candon , Marynel Vázquez

In the form of a dialogue (imitating in style Lakatos's Proof and Refutation), this chapter presents and explains the main points of the approach to contextuality dubbed Contextuality-by-Default.

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2016-02-17 Ehtibar N. Dzhafarov , Janne V. Kujala

This paper explores how natural-language descriptions of formal languages can be compared to their formal representations and how semantic differences can be explained. This is motivated from educational scenarios where learners describe a…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Tristan Kneisel , Marko Schmellenkamp , Fabian Vehlken , Thomas Zeume

As language-based AI systems become more anthropomorphic, the question of whether they can have subjective experience is increasingly pressing. I focus here on the tractability of research questions in the space of AI consciousness. I argue…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Iulia-Maria Comsa

Any system based on axioms is incomplete because the axioms cannot be proven from the system, just believed. But one system can be less-incomplete than other. Neutrosophy is less-incomplete than many other systems because it contains them.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Carlos Gershenson

Purpose - This paper presents a methodology for defining and modeling context-awareness and describing efficiently the interactions between systems, applications and their context. Also the relation of modern context-aware systems with…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Panteleimon Rodis

Artificial intelligence is rapidly transforming astronomical research, yet the scientific community has largely treated this transformation as an engineering challenge rather than an epistemological one. This perspective article argues that…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-28 Yuan-Sen Ting , André Curtis-Trudel , Siyu Yao

Slang is a common type of informal language, but its flexible nature and paucity of data resources present challenges for existing natural language systems. We take an initial step toward machine generation of slang by developing a…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-05-25 Zhewei Sun , Richard Zemel , Yang Xu

This paper provides a bundle perspective to contextuality by introducing new categories of contextuality scenarios based on bundles of simplicial complexes and simplicial sets. The former approach generalizes earlier work on the…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2023-08-15 Rui Soares Barbosa , Aziz Kharoof , Cihan Okay

A definition of Artificial Intelligence was proposed in [1] but this definition was not absolutely formal at least because the word "Human" was used. In this paper we will formalize the definition from [1]. The biggest problem in this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2012-09-24 Dimiter Dobrev

Computational argumentation offers formal frameworks for transparent, verifiable reasoning but has traditionally been limited by its reliance on domain-specific information and extensive feature engineering. In contrast, LLMs excel at…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-18 Stylianos Loukas Vasileiou , Antonio Rago , Francesca Toni , William Yeoh

Cognitive imagination is a type of imagination that plays a key role in human thinking. It is not a ``picture-in-the-head'' imagination. It is a faculty to mentally visualize coherent and holistic systems of concepts and causal links that…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-11 Evgenii E. Vityaev , Andrei Mantsivoda

Argumentation is a central subarea of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for modeling and reasoning about arguments. The semantics of abstract argumentation frameworks (AFs) is given by sets of arguments (extensions) and conditions on the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-05-19 Johannes Fichte , Nicolas Fröhlich , Markus Hecher , Victor Lagerkvist , Yasir Mahmood , Arne Meier , Jonathan Persson

AI governance frameworks increasingly rely on audits, yet the results of their underlying evaluations require interpretation and context to be meaningfully informative. Even technically rigorous evaluations can offer little useful insight…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2025-08-18 Leon Staufer , Mick Yang , Anka Reuel , Stephen Casper

Social media platforms today strive to improve user experience through AI recommendations, yet the value of such recommendations vanishes as users do not understand the reasons behind them. This issue arises because explainability in social…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Banan Alkhateeb , Ellis Solaiman

Simple assumptions represent a decisive reason to prefer one theory to another in everyday scientific praxis. But this praxis has little philosophical justification, since there exist many notions of simplicity, and those that can be…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-02-27 Luigi Scorzato

According to a mainstream position in contemporary cognitive science and philosophy, the use of abstract compositional concepts is both a necessary and a sufficient condition for the presence of genuine thought. In this article, we show how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-17 Katja Ried , Benjamin Eva , Thomas Müller , Hans J. Briegel

Inspired by recent and revolutionary developments in AI, particularly in language understanding and generation, we set about designing AI systems that are able to address complex scientific tasks that challenge human capabilities to make…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-11-01 José Manuel Gómez-Pérez

We investigate the impact of using author context on textual sarcasm detection. We define author context as the embedded representation of their historical posts on Twitter and suggest neural models that extract these representations. We…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-10-29 Silviu Oprea , Walid Magdy