Towards communicative agents with cognitive semantics of modal class-membership statements

Radoslaw P. Katarzyniak, Grzegorz Popek, Mariusz Mulka, Marcin Zurawski

Abstract: An approach to designing artificial agents, capable of uttering modal class-membership statements, is outlined. Related research and development problems are determined and briefly described. A possible way of solving the Harnad's classical Symbol Grounding Problem for modal class-membership statements as complex language symbols is formulated. The proposal is based on a related research into technical implementations and application of cognitive semantics. Apart from a classical setting, the resulting agent is to be equipped with an embedded prototype-based ontology, extracted from collected empirical data.