ENTAILMENT OF CAUSAL QUERIES IN NARRATIVES USING ACTION LANGUAGE

Pawan Goyal, Laxmidhar Behera, T. M. Mcginnity

2009

Abstract

In this paper, Action Language formalism has been used to reason about narratives in a multi agent framework. The actions have been given a semantic frame representation. Hypothetical situations have been dealt using different states for world knowledge and agents’ knowledge. A notion of plan recognition has been proposed to answer causal queries. Finally, an algorithm has been proposed for automatically translating a given narrative into the representation and causal query entailment has been shown.

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Goyal P., Behera L. and M. Mcginnity T. (2009). ENTAILMENT OF CAUSAL QUERIES IN NARRATIVES USING ACTION LANGUAGE . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009) ISBN 978-989-674-011-5, pages 112-118. DOI: 10.5220/0002275601120118


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@conference{kdir09,
author={Pawan Goyal and Laxmidhar Behera and T. M. Mcginnity},
title={ENTAILMENT OF CAUSAL QUERIES IN NARRATIVES USING ACTION LANGUAGE},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009)},
year={2009},
pages={112-118},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002275601120118},
isbn={978-989-674-011-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Information Retrieval - Volume 1: KDIR, (IC3K 2009)
TI - ENTAILMENT OF CAUSAL QUERIES IN NARRATIVES USING ACTION LANGUAGE
SN - 978-989-674-011-5
AU - Goyal P.
AU - Behera L.
AU - M. Mcginnity T.
PY - 2009
SP - 112
EP - 118
DO - 10.5220/0002275601120118