1986 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Understanding of social interaction processes from the viw point of cognitive theories
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58065001
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Specially Promoted Research
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Institution | Hokkaido University |
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Principal Investigator |
TODA Masanao Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (40000525)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
HAMA Yasuhisa Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, Instructor, 文学部, 助手 (70142669)
ANZAI Yuichiro Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (40051875)
SHINOTSUKA Hiromi Hokkaido University, Faculty of Letters, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (30000615)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1983 – 1986
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| Keywords | Social interaction / cognition / emotion / daily conversation / artificial intelligence / Japanese grammer / conversational system / 因果推論 |
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| Research Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to obtain a model of human mind in which the mind's various functions are properly and systematically organized as they should be. Such a task is undoubtedly extremely difficult to accomplish as even a single function of the mind is known to be tremendously complex. However, someone should take the first step toward this direction, since otherwise we should never be able to come up with an integrated model of mind. So our ambitious but modest aim has been first to discover important new problems which require priority in investigation, those which.have to be solved in the first place if we ever wish to reach to above-stated goal. Taking into account the fact that the mind's functions have been evolved primarily for the purpose of coping with human environment and the major constituents of the human environment are other human beings, we decided to employ the research strategy of attempting to build an AI system capable of engaging in daily conversation with people, since daily conversation was the most representative of the human social interaction processes, requiring all kinds of skills the mind could manage, those of cognition, emotion, learning, and so forth.
The general outcome of our four-year research will be summarized as follows: Many new targets of research have been identified, and substantial progresses have been attained in understanding their nature, though the AI system itself requires a few more years for the completion of its first model. Examples of the areas where our most prominent achievements have been recorded are: experimental investigation of interaction processes, theorization of emotion and causal inferences, developments of parsers for conversational Japanese, a flexible representation structure for knowledge system, software tools for constructing conversational system, and the actual implementation of one such conversational system.
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