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title: "Toward A Multiple Environments Model Of Natural Language"
authors:
  - "Janusz Stanislaw Bien"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/59"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1975/0059.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1975
pages: "379-381"
track: "Natural Language Understanding"
keywords:
---

# Toward A Multiple Environments Model Of Natural Language

Janusz Stanislaw Bien

*Proceedings of the Fourth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 379-381.

## Abstract

The idea or treating utterances as programs to be run in hWIBn brains or on a computer is pursued by advocating the use of the environment notion tor natural language semantics. One structure or environments is devoted to keeping track or the real or fictive interlocutors and another to distinguishing somebody's linguistic behavior from ita pretense and belief'1 while the third one represents the structure or topics in a discourse, The reguired flexibility or environment 118nipulation 1e expected to be supplied by the BobrawWegbreit primitives.