Using plans to understand natural language
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TL;DR
A program is described, called PAM, that has knowledge about people's intentions and uses its knowledge to infer the relationships between sentences in a text.
Abstract
Our ability to build a natural language understanding system is limited by the degree to which we can organize and apply world knowledge. This paper describes a program, called PAM, that has knowledge about people's intentions. PAM uses its knowledge to infer the relationships between sentences in a text. A sample run of the program is presented and is described in detail. The inference mechanisms of PAM are compared to those of other knowledge-application programs.