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Knowledge representation and reasoning for discourse understanding

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Logic Programming '88 (LP 1988)

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Abstract

Extra-linguistic knowledge is necessary for discourse understanding. In this paper, we classify the knowledge, and present a framework to describe it using frames and rules. With this framework, it is easy to represent an IS-A hierarchy, which is based on a classification by different viewpoints, and to describe functions of objects as declarative knowledge. Furthermore, to treat ambiguities in discourse understanding and to process utterances based on assumptions, the system has a world mechanism for inference. Lastly, we report the evaluation of this framework through the knowledge representation of a VCR and the conversation experiment by the dialogue system.

This work is supported by ICOT (Institute for New Generation Computer Technology).

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  1. Toshiba Corp. R&D center, 1, Komukai Toshiba-cho, Saiwai-ku, 210, Kawasaki, Japan

    Satoshi Kinoshita, Hiroshi Sano, Teruhiko Ukita, Kazuo Sumita & Shin'ya Amano

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  1. Satoshi Kinoshita
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  2. Hiroshi Sano
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  3. Teruhiko Ukita
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Koichi Furukawa Hozumi Tanaka Tetsunosuke Fujisaki

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Kinoshita, S., Sano, H., Ukita, T., Sumita, K., Amano, S. (1989). Knowledge representation and reasoning for discourse understanding. In: Furukawa, K., Tanaka, H., Fujisaki, T. (eds) Logic Programming '88. LP 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51564-X_66

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