- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 21:43:13 -0500
- To: tim finin <finin@cs.umbc.edu>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
>A mature ACL like KQML or the FIPA ACL is a good place to start, since >a lot of the issues have been worked out. However, this kind of ACL >was designed for a communication paradigm in which messages are >intentionally sent from one agent to another agent and typically both >parties know their conversational partner. The web paradigm is >different -- speech acts can be published for anyone to read. Tim, greetings. Thanks for the pointers, but I think that this is still too limited. It is not clear to me that web publication is very much like speech acts at all. Speech acts take place between creatures which have a social life and carefully distinguish between their private thoughts from their public assertions, neither of which apply here. In some ways, putting an ontology onto the web is more like electronic telepathy than speech, and the communication problems are rather like those that would probably arise if my brain had the problem of making sense of your thoughts. I think we need some entirely new ways of thinking about this. For example, what would be the common ground (in Herb Clark's sense) of a telepathic 'conversation'? Pat --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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