Language/action perspective
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Language/Action Perspective (LAP) is based upon the notion that "expert behavior requires an exquisite sensitivity to context" (Two Decades of the Language-Action Perspective, Communications of the ACM, May 2006) and that such sensitivity is more in the realm of the human than in that of the artificial. For further definition, see LAP-96 under External Links.
Insights from related work have been applied over the past two decades. In "The Struggle with the Language in the IT - Why is LAP not in the Mainstream?" (see LAP 2005 - Conference), Kalle Lyytinen discussed the academic/theoretic success of LAP. Yet, these LAP successes have not found entry into the wider stream of applications. In a sense, LAP is now peripheral to computer science, however there may be a need for a deeper look at this viewpoint.
LAP did play a role in the AI Winter. It rests strongly on the work of John Searle.
