Sergei Nirenburg

Núñez et al.'s (2019) negative assessment of the field of cognitive science derives from evaluation criteria that fail to reflect the true nature of the field. In reality, the field is thriving on both the research and educational fronts, and it shows great promise for the future.

This paper describes the layers of context leveraged by language-endowed intelligent agents (LEIAs) during incremental natural language understanding (NLU). Context is defined as a combination of (...

'Ontological Semantics' introduces a comprehensive approach to the treatment of text meaning by computer, arguing that being able to use meaning is crucial to the success of natural language processing applications.