Yorick Wilks

List of John Benjamins publications for which Yorick Wilks plays a role.

Book series

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

Title

Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues

Edited by Yorick Wilks

[Natural Language Processing, 8] 2010. xxii, 315 pp.

Subjects Computational & corpus linguistics | Consciousness research | Philosophy

Articles

Wilks, Yorick, Micah Clark, Tomas By, Adam Dalton and Ian Perera. 2014. CUBISM: Belief, anomaly and social constructs. Mental Model Ascription by Intelligent Agents, McShane, Marjorie (ed.), pp. 388–403

We introduce the CUBISM system for the analysis and deep understanding of multi-participant dialogues. CUBISM brings together two typically separate forms of discourse analysis: semantic analysis and sociolinguistic analysis. In the paper proper, we describe and illustrate major components of the… read more | Article

Wilks, Yorick. 2012. Pragmatics and dialogue phenomena: Are they essentially connected?. Pragmaticizing Understanding: Studies for Jef Verschueren, Meeuwis, Michael and Jan-Ola Östman (eds.), pp. 113–120

I argue that the definition of ‘pragmatics’ has drifted a great deal since Morris, but that there is much to be said for retaining and emphasizing his original sense of relatedness to an utterer. I discuss the role of a computational modelling of dialogue within that core conception of pragmatics,… read more | Article

Catizone, Roberta, Simon F. Worgan, Yorick Wilks, Alexiei Dingli and Weiwei Cheng. 2010. A world-hybrid approach to a conversational Companion for reminiscing about images. Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Wilks, Yorick (ed.), pp. 157–168

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Peltu, Malcom and Yorick Wilks. 2010. Summary and discussion of the issues. Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Wilks, Yorick (ed.), pp. 259–286

The COMPANIONS project, which inspired this book, is studying conversational software-based artificial agents that will get to know their owners over a substantial period. These could be developed to advise, comfort and carry out a wide range of functions to support diverse personal and social… read more | Article

Wilks, Yorick. 2010. Corpus linguistics and computational linguistics. The Bootcamp Discourse and Beyond, Worlock Pope, Caty (ed.), pp. 408–411

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Wilks, Yorick. 2010. Introducing artificial Companions. Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Wilks, Yorick (ed.), pp. 11–20

This introductory chapter, like the whole book itself, concerns a range of closely related topics: the possibility of machines having identifiable personalities, the possible future legal responsibilities of such companionable machines, and the design characteristics of such machines, including… read more | Article

Wilks, Yorick. 2010. On being a Victorian Companion. Close Engagements with Artificial Companions: Key social, psychological, ethical and design issues, Wilks, Yorick (ed.), pp. 121–128

I have argued or suggested: – English Common Law already, in dogs, has a legal category of entities that are not human but are in some degree responsible for their actions and have “characters” that can be assessed. – Users may not want Companions prone to immediately expressed emotions and a… read more | Article