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We consider a cognitive agent that is able to utter natural language conditional statements with modal operators of possibility and belief. Our long term aim is to simulate humans’ ability to choose a statement within an agent. We are developing formal criteria on when a conditional statement can be said based on agent’s knowledge. In previous works we defined a formal model for choosing a proper conditional statement. Here we focus more on a relation between antecedent and consequent. The relation between two phrases that is required to utter a conditional statement. We generalise our previous model to make it more flexible according to requirements and constraints imposed on an agent.
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Skorupa, G., Katarzyniak, R. (2011). Modelling Relationship between Antecedent and Consequent in Modal Conditional Statements. In: Jędrzejowicz, P., Nguyen, N.T., Hoang, K. (eds) Computational Collective Intelligence. Technologies and Applications. ICCCI 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6923. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23938-0_13
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