This paper outlines the major motivating factors concerning a novel collaborative project between

An approach to abductive inference developed in the TACITUS project has resulted in a dramatic simplification of how the problem of interpreting texts is conceptualized. Its use in solving the local pragmatics problems of reference, compound nominals, syntactic ambiguity, and metonymy is described

This paper outlines the major motivating factors concerning a novel collaborative project between Edinburgh College of Art and Edinburgh Virtual Environment Centre. The “Tacitus ” project will investigate the use of multimodal virtual environments, specifically, the haptic modality, with regards

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jewellery and metal, CAD and rapid prototyping. Project manager and principal investigator (ECA) for ‘Tacitus ’ project. Silvia Scali: Research Assistant at Edinburgh College of Art, MA Communication Design. Domain: novel interfaces, web and interaction/interface designer, research surrounding

iTACITUS is a sixth framework programme project and aims to privide a mobile cultural heritage information system for the individual. By combining itinerary planning, navigation and rich content on-site information, based upon a dispersed repository of historical and cultural resources it enables a

In the TACITUS project for using commonsense knowledge in the understanding of texts about mechanical devices and their failures, we have been developing various commonsense theories that are needed to mediate between the way we talk about the behavior of such devices and causal models

of the world, and consequently, we are in a much better position to address the problems of lexical semantics. In the TACITUS project for using commonsense knowledge in the understanding of texts about mechanical devices and their failures, we have been developing various commonsense theories that are needed

Abduction is inference to the best explanation. In the TACITUS project at SRI we have developed an approach to abductive inference, called "weighted abduction", that has resulted in a significant simplification of how the problem of interpreting texts is conceptualized. The interpretation

Abduction is inference to the best explanation. In the TACITUS project at SFLI we have developed an approach to abductive inference, called "weighted abduction", that has resulted in a significant simplification of how the problem of interpreting texts is conceptualized