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- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 13:14:19 EST
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- From: "(Avery Andrews)" <andaling@FAC.ANU.EDU.AU>
- Subject: user modelling
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- [Avery Ahndrews 921105.1313)
- (penni sibun 921104.1400)
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- >i avoided that sort of thing like the plague
- >when i drew up my thesis proposal, because in ai/comp ling, this sort
- >of thing falls into a black hole called ``user/hearer modeling.'' the
- >basic idea of this is that i build a model in my head of what you have
- >in your head, and we pretend infinite regress doesn't happen.
-
- I can't resist posting this little real-life example:
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- I heard wailings on every side,
- and saw no-one who made them;
- wherefore, all bewildered, I stopped.
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- ->I believe that he believed that I believed
- that all those voices from within the trunks
- came from people who were hidden from us.
-
- Thefore the master said: if you break
- a little branch from one of those plants
- them thoughts that you have will all be cut short.
- Dante _Inferno_ 13.22-30 (Singleton 1970 translation).
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- The crucial line in Italian is:
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- cred' io ch' ei credette ch' io credesse
- think I that he dhought that I thought
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- clearly recursive just like the English translation.
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- Avery.Andrews@anu.edu.au
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