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	What is agent as a semantic role?
		Agent is the semantic role of a person or thing who is the doer of an event.
		An agent is usually the grammatical subject of the verb in an active clause.
		A prototypical agent is conscious, acts with volition (on purpose), and performs an action that has a physical, visible effect.
	www.sil.org /linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAgentAsASemanticRole.htm (97 words)

	Looking for the Agent. \| Antimoon Forum
		The agent is the 'System' this was the agent for the pipe to burst.
		Agent James Bond is OK but he has too many different faces.
		agent: Linguistics The noun or noun phrase that specifies the person through whom or the means by which an action is effected.
	www.antimoon.com /forum/t1915.htm (0 words)

	agent - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Agent (m), agent, agent(e) (m/f), agent (de), agent (m) : AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary [home, info]
		Phrases that include agent: reducing agent, wetting agent, oxidizing agent, alkylating agent, county agent, more...
		Words similar to agent: agenting, broker, factor, spy, catalyst, deputy, emissary, federal agent, mole, negotiator, operative, operator, provocateur, rep, representative, more...
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=agent (0 words)

	Monojit Choudhury, Anupam Basu and Sudeshna Sarkar: Multi-Agent Simulation of Emergence of Schwa Deletion Pattern in ...
		Therefore, the only possibilities left with the researchers in diachronic linguistics are to collect as much historical data as possible and try to establish their theories based on this data as well as indirect evidence gathered from disciplines like cognitive sciences, biological sciences and other social sciences.
		To explain why a particular linguistic change has taken place, in the functional model, it suffices to show that under a given set of causal forces (identified independent of the model), the linguistic structure that is functionally optimal (identified computationally from the model) coincides with what is observed in reality.
		An agent (Russell and Norvig 2003) is composed of a sensor-actuator system, where the sensor helps the agent to get inputs from the environment and the actuator helps it to change the environment by some action.
	jasss.soc.surrey.ac.uk /9/2/2.html (14759 words)

	Linguistic typology at AllExperts
		Linguistic typology is the typology that classifies languages by their features.
		The use of the word 'subject' is somewhat misleading, even for languages which have subjects, because the SV or VS order of intransitive verbs does not in general follow the AVO etc. order of transitive verbs, as for example is the case with Russian.
		All we can do for such languages is find out which word order is the most frequent.For example, in a non-inflected language, the agent and object of a sentence are determined by word order; in an inflected language, the determination may be made by affixes applied to nouns to designate their grammatical roles.
	en.allexperts.com /e/l/li/linguistic_typology.htm (700 words)

	Agent - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In linguistics, Agent (grammar), one of the thematic roles: the participant of a situation that carries out an action.
		Agent provocateur, A person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another
		Agent, a financial institution acting as the operational intermediary in a syndicated loan between the syndicate banks and the borrower.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agent (283 words)

	YourArt.com >> Encyclopedia >> agent (Site not responding. Last check: )
		In law an agent is a person authorized to act for another, with delegated authority, such as a person holding a power of attorney.
		Agent, Law - In law an agent is a person authorized to act for another, with delegated authority, such as a person holding a power of attorney.
		Agent, Law - In law an agent is a person authorized to act for another, with delegated authority, such as a person holding a power of attorney under the law of agency.
	www.yourart.com /research/encyclopedia.cgi?subject=/agent (6876 words)

	Agent - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Each agent possesses the ability to act autonomously; this is an important distinction because a simple act of obedience to a command does not qualify an entity as an agent.
		Nevertheless in business and in law an agent is often acting on a principal's behalf and has a legal duty to act in that person's best interest.
		In microeconomics, an agent is a person who makes a decision on matters affecting the interests of a principal.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Agent (585 words)

	Agent (Site not responding. Last check: )
		An agent is an autonomous entity with an ontological commitment and agenda of its own.
		Agent (law) - In law an agent is a person authorized to act for another person or organization, with delegated authority, such as a person holding a power of attorney under the law of agency also known as an "attorney-in-fact" in contrast to an "attorney at law".
		In elections in the UK, an election agent is responsible for the conduct of a candidate's campaign.
	www.free-download-soft.com /info/agent.html (326 words)

	Forensic-Evidence: Identification Evidence - Forensic Stylistics in the Courts
		An FBI agent was prepared to testify that the defendant was the author of the unidentified threatening letters, but the defendant moved for the exclusion of the evidence prior to trial, and the court granted the motion in limine in part, and also denied it in part.
		Agent Fitzgerald is a member of the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crimes ("NCAVC") unit of the FBI Academy in Quantico, VA. He has been in that unit for about five years.
		Agent Fitzgerald does not have a degree in linguistics, forensic stylistics, or text analysis; he has a bachelor's degree in criminal justice and a master's degree in criminal justice administration.
	www.forensic-evidence.com /site/ID/linquistics.html (3525 words)

	UCSB Linguistics Research: Typology
		UCSB linguists understand linguistic typology as the systematic study of cross-linguistic variation and seek to come to terms with the full scope of typological differences among the world’s languages.
		While acknowledging the role of language universals—recurrent tendencies in structure and function—research in linguistic typology at UCSB concentrates on the ways in which languages differ from one another, because this tremendous diversity helps us to understand the full range of what language can be.
		Linguistic typology at UCSB participates in a strong two-way relationship with language documentation.
	www.linguistics.ucsb.edu /research/typology.html (236 words)

	Sociolinguistics the Study of Linguistics and Sociology
		The most significant linguist of the twentieth century is Noam Chomsky, whose area of interest has been the study of properties of language that are universal to all human speech communities.
		Note that the agent, the instrument, the experiencer (the involved entity), or the theme (the object itself) can be the grammatical subject of the sentence.
		Linguists theorize that our ability to acquire language is a direct consequence of our biological nature.
	www.ac.wwu.edu /~sngynan/slx1.html (2851 words)

	Agent Glossary
		Among the issues to be considered are: security for both the agent and the platform, resource requirements and commitments, transactional integrity of the transfer process, the continuity of communications between the mobile agent and other agents, and the continued manageability of the mobile agent.
		The relationship of objects and agents is an issue: some see agents as "objects with an attitude," that is, objects that obey a richer variety of protocols than standard OOPL objects.
		For example, an agent may declare a policy that all messages it exchanges with other agents must be encrypted, or that certain timing and message sequencing constraints must be observed when requesting a particular kind of service from that agent (i.e., conversation policies).
	www.objs.com /agility/tech-reports/9909-agent-glossary.html (6538 words)

	Agent Broker (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Each agent possesses the ability to act autonomously; this is an important distinction because a simple act of obedience to acommand does not qualify an entity as an agent.
		In microeconomics, an agent is a person who makes a decision onmatters affecting the interests of a principal.
		Agent (law) - In law anagent is a person authorized to act for another person or organization, with delegated authority, such as a person holding a power of attorney under the law of agency also known as an "attorney-in-fact" in contrast to an " attorney at law ".
	www.witchware.com /File/25691-Agent.Broker.Html (361 words)

	Citations: Linguistic Communication as Action and Cooperation: A study in Pragmatics - Allwood (ResearchIndex) (Site not responding. Last check: )
		1 Recognition of the speech act An obvious linguistic candidate that discloses the illocutionary force of a speech act is the appearance of an explicit performative in co occurrence with the adverb hereby.
		Gothenburg Monographs in Linguistics 2, Dept of Linguistics, University of Gteborg.
		Gothenburg Monographs in Linguistics 2, University of Gothenburg, Dept. of Linguistics.
	citeseer.ist.psu.edu /context/120887/258477 (4238 words)

	Agent noun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In linguistics, agent noun (or nomen agentis) is a word that is derived from another word denoting an action (A) and that has the meaning `entity that does A'.
		Agent noun (or nomen agentis) is also the name of this derivational meaning (also called a derivateme).
		Usually, derived in the above definition has the strict sense attached to it in morphology, i.e., the derivation takes as an input a lexeme and produces a new lexeme.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Agent_noun (127 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for agentive
		AGENT Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language...
		In grammar, the person or other being that instigates the happening denoted by the verb: Jenny in the sentences Jenny has written me a letter and Jenny made Henry angry refers to the doer of the action or the causer of the event.
		A form of generative grammar introduced in the late 1960s by the US linguist Charles Fillmore (born 1929) in which linguistic elements are categorized according to their semantic roles.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=agentive (750 words)

	Software Dioxide: Linguistics and Culture: heart of BPO (Site not responding. Last check: )
		To be successful, the CCC has to be fine-tuned to the linguistics and culture of the country in which the end customer is located.
		The problem for agents listening to a dialect is as much difficult as learning to neutralize it.
		These agents could be deployed for handling inbound calls to provide information, account service, tech support as well as order taking.
	www.softwaredioxide.com /channels/personView.asp?id=7607 (1231 words)

	John Benjamins: Contributions by Anneke Neijt
		Linguistics in the Netherlands 2004, Cornips, Leonie and Jenny Doetjes (eds.), 134–145.
		Linguistics in the Netherlands 1997, Coerts, Jane A. and Helen de Hoop (eds.), 147 ff.
		Linguistics in the Netherlands 1996, Cremers, Crit and Marcel den Dikken (eds.), 195 ff.
	www.benjamins.com /cgi-bin/t_authorview.cgi?author=9999 (251 words)

	Page Title
		Agents appear as functions, expressed by an abstract language that is capable of specifying modules, agents, and their communications.
		The implementing agents, their corresponding objects and their message passing actions can also be presented by the two-level abstract syntax.
		The objects and message passing by agents are programmed on SLPX [8] and the actual module definitions, for example the Coffee-Shop is defined by the parameterized algebraic specification language Compose.
	members.fortunecity.com /crisfn/intoop.html (1788 words)

	AISB 2005 \| Convention - Symposia
		Norms are essential for artificial agents that are to display behaviour comparable to human intelligent behaviour or collaborate with humans, because the use of norms is the key of human social intelligence.
		Social agents interacting with one another can only function properly if their choice of action is guided by an understanding of the mental state of the agents they interact with and of the effect their actions have on that mental state.
		Appropriately designed agents that have to coordinate their actions or negotiate with one another should therefore be equipped with some kind of model of what the other believes and feels as well as knowledge of the potential of actions to change such mental states, in other words: a theory of mind (ToM).
	aisb2005.feis.herts.ac.uk /symposia.html (4053 words)

	Linguistics - Majors & Programs - Undergraduate Admissions - The University of Iowa
		Linguistics is linked with anthropology and other social sciences in studying the relation of language use to culture, region, class, and gender.
		Linguists and computer scientists are discovering ways of identifying and representing sentence structures as part of knowledge and reasoning processes.
		Linguistics has important ties with instruction in foreign languages and English as a second language.
	www.uiowa.edu /admissions/undergrad/majors/at-iowa/Linguistics.html (776 words)

	FRANK SCHEPPERS 'Communication’ and ‘intention’ and the status of speaker and addressee
		If the agent has already fetched a kettle, filled it with water and now uses the matches to light a burner of the kitchen range to cook the water, the point of these actions and the encompassing action ‘heating water’ may get their point from the fact that he’s e.g.
		Rather, what the observer sees/hears presents itself to him as a matter of ‘following’ what the observed agent is doing/saying: he recognizes the observed actions as being a coherent whole of a familiar type and he experiences their ‘sense’ or ‘point’ in the same way as if he were performing the actions himself.
		Still, I hope to have shown that the notion of a supra-individual level of patterning is indispensable and that a reductionist stance with respect to the relationship between the individual and the supra-individual is highly problematic.
	www.ucm.es /info/circulo/no19/scheppers.htm (6647 words)

	Wild Computing: Toward an Agent Interaction Protocol
		Agent communication is broken down into two layers: an outer "agent interaction protocol" (AIP) layer, and an inner "content communication" layer.
		One agent is pushing information that it judges relevant -- pushing it to an agent representing a human, such as an e-mail program or an "active desktop," pushing it to an AI system, or wherever.
		All that is needed is the adoption of a sufficiently flexible agent interaction protocol, and the creation of various special-purpose-driven agents using the protocol to communicate.
	www.goertzel.org /books/wild/chapAIP.html (3522 words)

	Agents :: Import and Export : RSS Feeds : Gourt
		In linguistics, Agent (grammar), one of the thematic roles: the participant of a situation that carries out an action.
		Agent provocateur, A person assigned to provoke unrest, violence, debate, or argument by or within a group while acting as a member of the group but covertly representing the interests of another
		Agent noun (or nomen agentis), one of the derivatemes (a topic from linguistic morphology)
	business.gourt.com /Agriculture-and-Forestry/Import-and-Export/Agents.html (511 words)

	LINGUIST List 13.2372: Ling Research, Lang & Lang Learning
		As a matter of policy, LINGUIST discourages the use of abbreviations or acronyms in conference announcements unless they are explained in the text.
		The conference focuses on two main areas where results of linguistic research can be relevant for professional settings: the first is the vast field of computer mediated communication (CMC), the second is the smaller, but strategic, area of interlinguistic and intercultural communication.
		The aim of the conference is, on the one hand, to increase the awareness of both linguists and industry, and, on the other, to present particular lines of linguistic research that lend themselves to interesting applications in these fields.
	www.linguistlist.org /issues/13/13-2372.html (911 words)

	Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems - Artificial Intelligence (incl. R...Journals, Books & Online Media \| Springer
		The emergence of autonomous agents and multi-agent technology is one of the most exciting and important events to occur in computer science during the 1990s.
		While a range of submissions are welcome, from purely theoretical to application-oriented, all submissions should indicate both the consequences of their results for the development of agent systems and the significance of their results for other researchers and practitioners within the field.
		Exploration of relationships between agents and other disciplines such as ethology, psychology, linguistics, philosophy, and human-computer interaction; and the relationship between multi-agent systems and other disciplines such as sociology, economics, game theory, and organization theory.
	www.springer.com /west/home?SGWID=4-102-70-35744137-0&changeHeader=true&referer=www.wkap.nl&SHORTCUT=www.springer.com/prod/j/1387-2532 (536 words)

	Amazon.de: Insider's Guide to Getting an Agent: English Books: Lori Perkins (Site not responding. Last check: )
		She quotes author Robert Weinberg here as saying that at bottom an agent should be like "a good Jewish mother...Pushy, annoying, constantly questioning, and wanting the very best for you".
		It's common knowledge that, as author Lori Perkins states here, "The essential task of agenting is matchmaking between editors and authors." We know as well that agents spend all day on the phone (minus two hours for lunch) and all evening poring over proposals and manuscripts.
		If, like me, you're seeking an agent, this book is a must-have; her words give you the feeling that if you polish your craft, pay attention to the business aspects of writing, and you persist, then acquiring an agent and getting published are inevitable.
	www.amazon.de /Insiders-Guide-Getting-Agent-Perkins/dp/1582973687 (1289 words)

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		The command agent generates an abstract plan to achieve the goal and communicates it to the two subordinate company commanders, who in turn further elaborate their portion of the battalion plan (each avoiding the introduction of threats into their sibling’s plan).
		Whenever a commander agent is sent a new mission, a domain specific rule asserts the new goal of extracting the plan contained with this order: plan-for(?me ?order ?plan).
		Plans may be associated with groups of agents and represent the notion of common knowledge, relationships that are essential for coordinated behavior.
	www.isi.edu /soar/astt/FallSym98.doc (4486 words)

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