Conceptual Structures Current Practices : Second International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Iccs '94, College Park, Maryland, Usa, August 16-20, 1994 : Proceedings'

Aristotelian and platonic views of knowledge representation.- Conceptual graphs - Past, present, and future.- Pragmatic semantics by conceptual graphs.- The temporal structure of a discourse and verb tense determination.- Linguistic processing of text for a large-scale conceptual Information Retrieval system.- A multilingual analyser of medical texts.- Extracting explicit and implicit knowledge from natural language texts.- A rational goal-seeking agent using conceptual graphs.- Attitudes: Keys to problem identification.- Basic Conceptual Structures Theory.- Views, mappings and functions: Essential definitions to the conceptual graph theory.- Contexts and concepts, abstraction duals.- Contexts, canons and coreferent types.- Using contexts to represent text.- Inference systems for conceptual graph programs.- UDS: A universal data structure.- A conceptual and contextual object-oriented logic programming: The PROLOG++ language.- Knowledge visualization from conceptual structures.- Exploiting the induced order on type-labeled graphs for fast knowledge retrieval.- Standardizing and interfacing Relational Databases using Conceptual Graphs.