BIB-VERSION:: CS-TR-v2.0 ID:: STAN//CS-TR-74-471 ENTRY:: August 23, 1995 ORGANIZATION:: Stanford University, Department of Computer Science TITLE:: The interaction of inferences, affects, and intentions, in a model of paranoia. TYPE:: Technical Report AUTHOR:: Faught, William S. AUTHOR:: Colby, Kenneth Mark AUTHOR:: Parkison, Roger C. DATE:: December 1974 PAGES:: 39 ABSTRACT:: The analysis of natural language input into its underlying semantic content is but one of the tasks necessary for a system (human or non-human) to use natural language. Responding to natural language input requires performing a number of tasks: 1) deriving facts about the input and the situation in which it was spoken; 2) attending to the system's needs, desires, and interests; 3) choosing intentions to fulfill these interests; 4) deriving and executing actions from these intentions. We describe a series of processes in a model of paranoia which performs these tasks. We also describe the modifications made by the paranoid processes to the normal processes. A computer program has been constructed to testst this theory. NOTES:: [Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19950823] END:: STAN//CS-TR-74-471