Online papers of Varol Akman
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Talk slides
Books
Published in journals
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On Strawsonian
Contexts (Pragmatics & Cognition, 2005)
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Representing
the Zoo World and the Traffic World in the Language of the Causal Calculator
(Artificial Intelligence, 2004)
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The
Complexity of Context: Guest Editors' Introduction (J Pragmatics, 2003)
[Special Issue "Context"]
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Contexts
of Social Action: Guest Editors' Introduction (Language & Communication,
2002) [Special Issue "Contexts of Social Action"]
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Editorial:
Context in Context (Foundations of Science, 2002) [Special Issue "Context in Context"]
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Censoring
the Internet: The Situation in Turkey
(First
Monday, 2002)
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Internet
in the Lives of Turkish Women (First
Monday, 2002) [also see this commentary
(in German)]
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Guest
Editor's Introduction: Artificial Intelligence
(Turkish J Electrical Eng & CS, 2001)
[Special Issue "AI"]
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Turing
Test: 50 Years Later (Minds
& Machines, 2000)
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Editorial:
Alan Turing and Artificial Intelligence (J Logic, Language &
Information, 2000) [Special Issue "Alan Turing
& AI"]
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Guest
Editor's Introduction (J Experimental & Theoretical AI, 2000) [Special Issue "Philosophical Foundations of AI"]
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Rethinking
Context as a Social Construct (J Pragmatics, 2000)
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Relating
to Ken Kesey's Wise Man (J Pragmatics, 2000)
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Guest
Editor's Introduction (Minds & Machines, 1998) [Special Issue "Situations & AI"]
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An
Analysis of English Punctuation: The Special Case of Comma
(Int J Corpus Linguistics, 1998)
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The
Use of Situation Theory in Context Modeling
(Computational
Intelligence, 1997)
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Situated
Nonmonotonic Temporal Reasoning with BABY-SIT
(AI
Communications, 1997)
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Commonsense
Aspects of Buying and Selling (Cybernetics
& Systems, 1996)
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Current
Approaches to Punctuation in Computational Linguistics
(Computers & Humanities, 1996)
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Steps
Toward Formalizing Context (AI
Mag, 1996)
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Nonstandard
Set Theories and Information Management (J Intelligent Information Systems, 1996)
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HYPERSOLVER:
A Graphical Tool for Commonsense Set Theory
(Information
Sciences, 1995)
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Towards
Situation-Oriented Programming Languages
(SIGPLAN
Notices, 1995)
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Situated
Modeling of Epistemic Puzzles (Logic J IGPL, 1995)
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Issues
in Commonsense Set Theory (AI Rev, 1994)
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Computational
Situation Theory (SIGART
Bull, 1994)
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Ripping
the Text Apart at Different Seams
(Stanford
Humanities Rev, 1994)
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Computing with Causal Theories (Int J Pattern Recognition &
AI, 1992)
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Implementation of Karp-Luby Monte Carlo
Method: An Exercise in Approximate
Counting (Computer
J, 1991)
- The Power of Physical
Representations (AI Mag, 1989)
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Adaptive Grid
for Polyhedral Visibility in Object Space: An Implementation
(Computer J, 1988)
- A Simple and Efficient Haloed Line
Algorithm for Hidden Line Elimination
(Computer Graphics Forum,
1987)
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Writing
Self-Replicating Code
(Computer J, 1986)
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Building an Octree from a Set of Parallelepipeds (IEEE Computer Graphics &
Applications, 1985)
Published in books or presented in conferences
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Situation Semantics (Encyclopedia
of Language & Linguistics 2nd Edition, Elsevier, 2005-6)
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Modeling
and Visualization of Complex Geometric Environments (Geometric
Modeling: Techniques, Applications, Systems & Tools, M Sarfraz,
ed, Kluwer, 2004)
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Turing
Test: 50 Years Later
(The
Turing Test: The Elusive Standard of AI, JH Moor,
ed, Kluwer, 2003)
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Using
Criticalities as a Heuristic for Answer Set Programming (Logic
Programming & Nonmonotonic Reasoning, V Lifschitz, I Niemelä, eds, Springer, 2003)
- Using
Criticalities as a Heuristics for Answer Set Programming (Proc
2nd Int Workshop on Answer Set Programming (ASP-03), M De Vos, A Provetti, eds, 2003)
- Specificity, Automatic
Designation, and 'I' (Direct
Reference & Specificity Workshop,
ESSLLI, 2003)
- In Search of Intended Meaning:
Investigating Barwise's Equation
(Barwise
& Situation Semantics Workshop,
CONTEXT, 2003)
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Context
in AI: A Fleeting Overview ["Contesti in intelligenza artificiale: una fugace rassegna"] (La Svolta Contestuale,
C Penco, ed, McGraw-Hill, 2002)
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Absolut
I (Information, Indexicality & Consciousness: A Conf on John Perry, 2001)
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A
Representation of the Traffic World in the Language of the Causal Calculator
(COMMON
SENSE, 2001)
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Using Stable Model Semantics (SMODELS)
in the Causal Calculator (CCALC)
(TAINN, 2001)
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Strawson
on Intended Meaning and Context (CONTEXT, 1999)
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An
Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation in Discourse Representation
Theory (Mathematical & Computational Analysis of Natural Language, C Martin-Vide, ed,
John Benjamins, 1998)
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Situated
Analysis of Anaphora in Turkish (The Mainz Meeting: Proc 7th Int Conf on
Turkish Linguistics, L. Johanson
et al, eds, Harrassowitz, 1998)
- Dashes
as Typographical Cues for Information Structure (3rd Int Conf on
Information-Theoretic Approaches to Logic, Language & Computation, 1998)
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Context
as a Social Construct (AAAI
Fall Symp on Context in Knowledge Representation & Natural Language, 1997)
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Notions and Oracles (The Role of Pragmatics in Contemporary
Philosophy: Contributions of the Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 1997)
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Information-Oriented
Computation with BABY-SIT (Logic, Language & Computation, J Seligman, D Westerstahl, eds, CSLI
Publications, 1996)
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Information-Based
Aspects of Punctuation (Int Workshop on Punctuation in Computational Linguistics,
ACL, 1996)
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An
Information-Based Treatment of Punctuation (2nd Int Conf on Mathematical Linguistics, 1996)
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Modeling
Context with Situations (IJCAI
Workshop on Modeling Context in Knowledge Representation & Reasoning, 1995)
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Contexts,
Oracles, and Relevance (AAAI
Fall Symp on Formalizing Context, 1995)
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Situations
and Computation: An Overview of Recent Research (Grammar
Formalism for NLP, Language & Computation Workshop, ESSLLI, 1994)
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Situated
Processing of Pronominal Anaphora
(KONVENS, H Trost,
ed, Informatik Xpress, 1994)
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BABY-SIT:
A Computational Medium Based on Situations (9th Amsterdam Colloquium, P Dekker,
M Stokhof, eds, Institute
for Logic, Language & Computation, 1993)
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Mental
Models of Force and Motion (IEEE Int Workshop on Intelligent Motion Control,
O Kaynak, ed, IEEE Press, 1990)
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Mind & Mechanism (Artificial Intelligence, 2003)
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Mind
& Mechanism (Notre
Dame Philosophical Revs, 2002)
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Survey
of the State of the Art in Human Language Technology
(Computational
Linguistics, 1999)
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Mind Design II: Philosophy, Psychology
& Artificial Intelligence
(SIGART
Bull, 1998)
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Quantifiers,
Logic & Language (Natural
Language Eng, 1998)
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Linguistic Semantics: An Introduction (Natural
Language Eng, 1997)
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Vicious Circles: On the Mathematics of
Non-Wellfounded Phenomena (J Logic, Language & Information, 1997)
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Formalizing Common Sense: Papers by John
McCarthy (Artificial
Intelligence, 1995)
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From Discourse to Logic: Introduction to
Modeltheoretic Semantics of Natural Language, Formal Logic & Discourse
Representation Theory (Computational
Linguistics, 1995)
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Logic
Primer (J Logic & Computation, 1995)
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Logic
for Applications (SIGACT
News, 1995)
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Action
Semantics (J Logic & Computation, 1993)
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Qualitative Process Theory Using Linguistic Variables
(SIGART Bull,
1991)
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ACTORS: A
Model of Concurrent Computation in Distributed Systems
(AI Mag,
1990)
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Artificial Intelligence: An MIT Perspective, Volume 2 - Understanding Vision,
Manipulation, Computer Design, Symbol Manipulation (SIGART
News, 1985)
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Artificial Intelligence: An MIT Perspective, Volume 1 - Expert Problem
Solving, Natural Language Understanding, Intelligent Computer Coaches,
Representation & Learning (SIGART News,
1985)
Short pieces
Bilkent tech reports
Since 2000, I no more submit my
manuscripts as Bilkent tech reports
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BU-CEIS-9314 HETEROGENEOUS INFERENCE IN DESIGN
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BU-CEIS-9315 COMPUTATIONAL SITUATION THEORY w/ E Tın
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BU-CEIS-9316 HYPERSOLVER: A GRAPH-BASED TOOL FOR MODELING WITH SETS w/ M
Pakkan
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BU-CEIS-9403 EFFICIENCY OF RANDOMLY ASSIGNING TASKS TO PROCESSORS w/ WR
Franklin, C Narayanaswami, MS Kankanhalli
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BU-CEIS-9404 REVIEW OF ACTION SEMANTICS BY PETER D. MOSSES
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BU-CEIS-9405 THE LOGIC OF COUNTERACTIONS w/ E Tın
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BU-CEIS-9406 ISSUES IN COMMONSENSE SET THEORY w/ M Pakkan
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BU-CEIS-9407 COMMONSENSE ASPECTS OF BUYING AND SELLING w/ M Ersan, E Ersan
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BU-CEIS-9408 REPRESENTING EMOTIONS IN TERMS OF OBJECT DIRECTEDNESS w/ HG
Ünsal
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BU-CEIS-9409 NONSTANDARD SET THEORIES AND INFORMATION MANAGEMENT w/ M
Pakkan
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BU-CEIS-9410 SETS IN CONTEXT AND RELATED ISSUES w/ M Surav
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BU-CEIS-9411 AXIOMATIC SET THEORIES AND COMMON SENSE w/ M Surav
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BU-CEIS-9414 EXCURSIONS TO A TOPOLOGICAL PICTUREBOOK w/ A Arslan
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BU-CEIS-9415 BABY-SIT: A COMPUTATIONAL MEDIUM BASED ON SITUATIONS w/ E Tın
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BU-CEIS-9417 SITUATED MODELING OF EPISTEMIC PUZZLES w/ M Ersan
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BU-CEIS-9419 SITUATED PROCESSING OF PRONOMINAL ANAPHORA w/ E Tın
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BU-CEIS-9429 FOCUSING FOR PRONOUN RESOLUTION IN ENGLISH DISCOURSE: AN
IMPLEMENTATION w/ E Ersan
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BU-CEIS-9430
(supercedes BU-CEIS-9417) SITUATED MODELING OF EPISTEMIC PUZZLES w/ M
Ersan
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BU-CEIS-9433 CONTEXTS AND SITUATIONS w/ M Surav
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BU-CEIS-9506 SITUATIONS AND COMPUTATION: AN OVERVIEW OF RECENT RESEARCH w/
E Tın
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BU-CEIS-9507 MODELING CONTEXT WITH SITUATIONS w/ M Surav
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BU-CEIS-9510 CONTEXTS, ORACLES, AND RELEVANCE w/ M Surav
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BU-CEIS-9905 TURING TEST: 50 YEARS LATER w/ AP Saygın, İ Çiçekli
Vintage tech reports
- Reconstructing visible regions from visible segments (RUU-CS-86-05)
- Adaptive grid for polyhedral visibility in object space: an implementation (RUU-CS-86-04)
- Octree data structures and creation by stacking (RUU-CS-86-03)
- A simple and efficient haloed line algorithm for hidden line elimination (RUU-CS-85-28)
Misc
