1. The ABC of Computational Pragmatics (by Bunt, Harry); 2. An activity-based approach to pragmatics (by Allwood, Jens); 3. Dialogue pragmatics and context specification (by Bunt, Harry); 4. Pragmatics in language understanding and cognitively motivated architectures (by Sabah, Gerard); 5. Dialogue analysis using layered protocols (by Taylor, M. Martin); 6. Coherence and structure in text and discourse (by Redeker, Gisela); 7. Discourse focus tracking (by Carter, David); 8. Speech act theory and epistemic planning (by Ramsay, Allan); 9. Context and form: declarative or interrogative, that is the question (by Beun, Robbert-Jan); 10. The doxastic-epistemic force of declarative utterances (by Thijsse, Elias C.G.); 11. A conceptual modelling approach to the implementation of beliefs and intentions (by Meyer, Ralph); 12. Abduction and induction: a real distinction? (by Neal, Philip); 13. Laconic discourses and total eclipses: abduction in DICE (by Oberlander, Jon); 14. Abductive reasoning with knowledge bases for context modelling (by Guessoum, Ahmed); 15. Abductive speech act recognition, corporate agents, and the COSMA system (by Hinkelman, Elizabeth); 16. List of contributors; 17. Index