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Organization and inference in a frame-like system of common sense knowledge

Published 1 January 1975Open access
Eugene Charniak
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TL;DR

The construction of a computer program which will answer questions about simple narration is still interested, but it must be structured so that necessary knowledge will not clog the system with the all too familiar "combinatorial explosion".

Abstract

this paper. The primary mechanism of understanding line of a stor is to see it as instantiating one or more FS's. So, for example, a particular FS in the shopping at the supermarket frame would be: (1) SHOPPER obtain use of BASKET (SHOPPER, BASKET, and in general any part of an FS written in all capitals is a variable. These variables must be restricted so that SHOPPER is probably human, and certainly animate, while BASKET should only be bound to baskets, as opposed to, say, pockets.) This FS would be instantiated by the second line of story (2)

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PsychologyComputer ScienceEngineering