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Associative Lookup

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Bridges (1)

Other communities that share members with this one — cross-cutting threads or papers that sit at the seam between two themes.

Concepts (7)

  • Ian PiumartaAuthor of the paper proposing n-way associative lookup as a unifying primitive for dynamic language semantics.
  • John McCarthyPrimary author proposing Elephant 2000 programming language based on speech acts and logical semantics.
  • J. L. AustinPhilosopher who developed foundational speech act theory; McCarthy adapts and deviates from Austin's framework for Elephant.
  • n-way Associative LookupThe single primitive operation of looking up a value from a set of n keys.
  • Delegation
  • H. P. GricePhilosopher whose work on conversational implicature McCarthy references when discussing responsiveness of answers.
  • Performatives

Thinkers (2)

  • Daniel DennettPhilosopher whose Intentional Stance is adapted and extended by TAME framework.
  • John SearlePhilosopher whose work on speech acts and intentionality McCarthy references; McCarthy discusses Searle's position on machine beliefs and promises.