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A Model For Attention-Driven Judgements In Type Theory With Records, Simon Dobnik, John D. Kelleher
A Model For Attention-Driven Judgements In Type Theory With Records, Simon Dobnik, John D. Kelleher
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This paper makes three contributions to the discussion on the applicability of Type Theory with Records (TTR) to embodied dialogue agents. First, it highlights the problem of type assignment or judgements in practical implementations which is resource intensive. Second, it presents a judgement control mechanism, which consists of grouping of types into clusters or states by their thematic relations and selection of types following two mechanisms inspired by the Load Theory of selective attention and cognitive control (Lavie et al., 2004), that addresses this problem. Third, it presents a computational framework, based on Bayesian inference, that offers a basis for …