A working memory model of relations between interpretation and reasoning
Keith Stenning, Michiel van Lambalgen · 2005
Interpretation is the process whereby a hearer reasons to an interpretation of a speaker's discourse. The hearer normally adopts a credulous attitude to the discourse, at least for the purposes of interpreting it. That is to say the hearer tries to accommodate the truth of all the speaker's utterances in deriving an intended model. We present a non-monotonic logical model of this process which defines unique minimal preferred models and so e#ciently simulates a kind of closed-world reasoning of particular interest for human cognition.