The nature of contexts and its representation and management has been recognized as a crucial issue in all the cognitive disciplines dealing with language and reasoning. This course will seek to find materials for general theory of context in recent research areas such as discourse, and the semantics of "dynamic" phenomena in natural languages and programming languages, and to relate this theoretical material to research problems in natural language processing. In doing this we will read materials from philosophy, linguistics, and computer science.
Prerequisites: none
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Credits: 3