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Applying Possibility and Belief Operators to Conditional Statements

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In this paper we outline a model for grounding of natural language statements being conditional statements extended with modal operators of possibility and belief. This work extends a detailed theory of modal language grounding proposed elsewhere. At first, some comments and intuitive semantics of modal conditional statements are presented. At second, a general structure of formal model, that covers this semantics is proposed. This model refers to the idea of possible worlds semantics. The grounding of modal conditional statements is defined by means of original concepts of epistemic satisfaction relation. The work sets up theoretical basis for further analytic and experimental evaluations.

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  1. Wroclaw University of Technology, Wybrzeże Wyspiańskiego 27

    Grzegorz Skorupa & Radosław Katarzyniak

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  1. Grzegorz Skorupa
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  1. School of Engineering, The Parade, Cardiff University, CF24 3AA, Cardiff, UK

    Rossitza Setchi

  2. Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, BUckingham Building, Lion Terrace, University of Portsmouth, PO1 3HE, Portsmouth, UK

    Ivan Jordanov

  3. KES International, 145-157, St. John Street, EC1V 4PY, London, UK

    Robert J. Howlett

  4. School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of South Australia, ,, Adelaide, Mawson Lakes Campus, 5095, SA, Australia

    Lakhmi C. Jain

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Skorupa, G., Katarzyniak, R. (2010). Applying Possibility and Belief Operators to Conditional Statements. In: Setchi, R., Jordanov, I., Howlett, R.J., Jain, L.C. (eds) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems. KES 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15387-7_31

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