Assimilation of New Information by a Natural Language Understanding System

Title: en_US Assimilation of New Information by a Natural Language Understanding System
Creator: en_US McDermott, Drew V.
Date: 2004-10-20T20:04:27Z
Date Available: 2004-10-20T20:04:27Z
Date Issued: en_US 1974-02-01
Identifier: en_US AITR-291
uri: http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6886
Abstract: en_US This work describes a program, called TOPLE, which uses a procedural model of the world to understand simple declarative sentences. It accepts sentences in a modified predicate calculus symbolism, and uses plausible reasoning to visualize scenes, resolve ambiguous pronoun and noun phrase references, explain events, and make conditional predications. Because it does plausible deduction, with tentative conclusions, it must contain a formalism for describing its reasons for its conclusions and what the alternatives are. When an inconsistency is detected in its world model, it uses its recorded information to resolve it, one way or another. It uses simulation techniques to make deductions about creatures motivation and behavior, assuming they are goal-directed beings like itself.
Extent: en_US 160 p.; 11441814 bytes; 9036948 bytes
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Language: en_US
Relation: en_US AITR-291