Raymond Roussel

[Glenn Scheper]

Cool!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_Roussel
We learn that the actors are actually dead people whom Canterel
has revived with 'resurrectine,' a fluid of his invention which
if injected into a fresh corpse causes it continually to act out
the most important incident of its life."

These couple URLs came up in my surfing:

http://www.cs.uu.nl/groups/IS/archive/henry/RobertReport.pdf 
Formalizing Robert's Rules of Order.
An Experiment in Automating Mediation of Group Decision Making

In order to integrate the logical and procedural aspects
of rational argumentation, both Brewka & Gordon [1994]
and Gordon & Karacipilidis [1997], and Prakken [1995,1997]
have proposed a multi-layered view on argumentation.
The first two layers assume a fixed body of information:
the logic layer defines which arguments can be constructed
with this information, and the dialectical layer determines,
given certain evaluation criteria that are also in the
information base, which arguments survive the competition
with all conflicting arguments.
The third, procedural layer drops the assumption of a fixed body
of information and instead assumes that the information base is
constructed dynamically during the dispute (thus the first two
layers apply to each stage of a dispute). This layer defines
the possible speech acts for doing so, and the norms for when
these speech acts may or must be used (Accordingly, Brewka & Gordon
[1994] and Gordon & Karacipilidis [1997] explicitly divide
the procedural layer into a speech act layer and a norm layer.)

Like any set of norms for human behaviour, the rules of RRO can be violated.
...a basic idea of the current project is that as an implemented system,
ROBERT should satisfy the following constraints.
1. It must be physically possible for the users (including the chair) to violate RRO;
2. It must be possible for the chair to set RRO aside when needed.


This other URL, to me, lacking English exposition instruction,
fascinates me as a possible procedure to organize exposition:

http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/P/P82/P82-1030.pdf
SALIENCE: THE KEY TO THE SELECTION PROBLEM IN NATURAL LANGUAGE GENERATION

Yours truly,
Glenn Scheper
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