Ontological Foundations of Natural Language Communication in Multiagent Systems

摘要

The paper outlines a semantic ontology as a minimal set of top-level conceptual distinctions underlying natural language communication. A semantic ontology can serve as the basis for the specification of the meaning, as the logical form, of agent messages couched in natural language. It represents a general and reusable module in the architecture of multi-agent systems involving human as well as software agents. As a practical example, we will sketch a basic multi-agent system relying on natural language communication.