--- abstract: 'The importance of contextual reasoning is emphasized by various researchers in AI. (A partial list includes John McCarthy and his group, R. V. Guha, Yoav Shoham, Giuseppe Attardi and Maria Simi, and Fausto Giunchiglia and his group.) Here, we survey the problem of formalizing context and explore what is needed for an acceptable account of this abstract notion.' altloc: - http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~akman/jour-papers/aimag/aimag.ps chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Akman given: Varol honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Surav given: Mehmet honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 1996 date_type: published datestamp: 1998-06-17 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/04/64 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 464 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_postscript.png;/464/2/aimag.ps full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'commonsense reasoning, context, lifting, natural language, categorization, intelligent information retrieval, knowledge representation, logic, situation theory.' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:53:58 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 3 pagerange: 55-72 pubdom: FALSE publication: AI Magazine publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 10 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:28:24 subjects: - cog-psy - comp-sci-art-intel - comp-sci-lang - ling-comput - ling-prag - ling-sem - phil-lang - phil-logic succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: Steps toward Formalizing Context type: journalp userid: 178 volume: 17