[comp.ai.digest] Varieties of Content: Informational .vs. Semantic; Pure .vs. Incrememental - David Israel

MVILAIN@G.BBN.COM (Marc Vilain) (12/15/88)

                    BBN Science Development Program
                       AI Seminar Series Lecture

           VARIETIES OF CONTENT: INFORMATIONAL VS. SEMANTIC;
                         PURE VS. INCREMEMENTAL

                            David Israel
                           SRI International
                      (ISRAEL@Warbucks.AI.SRI.COM)

                                BBN Labs
                           10 Moulton Street
                    2nd floor large conference room
                     10:30 am, Thursday December 22


   In this talk, I will present an informal exposition of a theory of
information content due to John Perry and myself, and apply some of the
notions and distinctions central to that theory to some issues about the
semantics of singular reference in natural language.
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