Abstract
Semantics is grounded on intellectual activities in various communities in the human society. Conversations and stories are primary media for substantiating the semantic processes in a community. In this paper, I model a semantic process as a coevolutionary spiral of conversations and stories in a community, and present a simple but practical computational model featuring knowledge cards that can serve as a semantic component, lifecycle support of knowledge cards, and strategic control of information streams. Then, I generalize the approach as a technique called conversation quantization, which is based on the idea of approximating a continuous flow of conversation by a series of conversation quanta that represent points of the discourse. I show some implemented systems to show how these ideas are implemented.
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Nishida, T. (2007). Semantic Computing with Conversations and Stories. In: Sakurai, A., Hasida, K., Nitta, K. (eds) New Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence. JSAI JSAI 2003 2004. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 3609. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-71009-7_15
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