Paper Info
Title
Marker passing as a weak method for text inferencing
Abstract
The problem of deciding what is implied by a written text, of “reading between the lines” is the problem of text inference. To extract proper inferences from a text requires a great deal of general knowledge on the part of the reader. Past approaches have often used a “strong method” tuned to process a particular kind of knowledge structure (such as a script, or a plan). The alternative is a “weak method” which is applicable to a variety of knowledge structures. Just such a method is proposed here, one which recognizes six very general classes of inference. These classes are not dependent on individual knowledge structures, but instead rely on patterns of connectivity between concepts. Patterns are discovered, and inferences are suggested, by a process of marker passing between concepts.
Year
DOI
Venue
1989
10.1016/0364-0213(89)90024-4
Cognitive Science
Field
DocType
Volume
Knowledge representation and reasoning,Computer science,Inference,Knowledge structure,General knowledge,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence,Knowledge base,Cognition,Text inferencing
Journal
13
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
4
0364-0213
37
PageRank 
References 
Authors
4.52
12
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Peter Norvig142561.47