How to pass a turing test syntactic semantics, natural-language understanding, and first-person cognition

Journal of Logic, Language and Information

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 467-490

  Rapaport, William J ^a  

^a The State University of New York   (United States)

Author keywords

Chinese Room Argument; First person point of view; Internalism; Methodological solipsism; Problem of other minds; Representative realism; Rules and representations; Semantic network; Semantics; SNePS; Syntax; Turing Test

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000350652     PISSN: 09258531     EISSN: 15729583     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008319409770     Document Type: Article

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