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ns of the ACM 37, No. 7, 107-116 (1994). Accepted for publication May 17, 2002. J. McCarthy Stanford University Stanford, California M. Minsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts A. Sloman University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK L. Gong IBM Research Division Hawthorne, New York T. Lau IBM Research Divisi

Report 890030, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (1989). (16.) E.T. Mueller, Natural Language Processing with ThoughtTreasure, Signiform, New York (1998), full text of book available on line at http://www.signiform.com/tt/book/. (17.) L. G. Alexander, Longman English Gramm

ns of the ACM 37, No. 7, 107-116 (1994). Accepted for publication May 17, 2002. J. McCarthy Stanford University Stanford, California M. Minsky Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge, Massachusetts A. Sloman University of Birmingham Birmingham, UK L. Gong IBM Research Division Hawthorne, New York T. Lau IBM Research Divisi

g a story by building and maintaining a simulation that models the mental and physical states and events described in the story, as demonstrated in ThoughtTreasure. (16) The advantage of this approach is that it is easy to answer questions about the story simply by examining the contents of the simulation. Cri

Harvard University; Penn tate University; Lenox Hill Hospital (New York); the Biomedical Research and Education Foundation; the Santa Fe Institute; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Case Western Reserve University; and Harvard Medical School's Institute for Music and Brain Science. Moreover, Mr. Epstein has sponsored and chair

Report 890030, Computer Science Department, University of California, Los Angeles, CA (1989). (16.) E.T. Mueller, Natural Language Processing with ThoughtTreasure, Signiform, New York (1998), full text of book available on line at http://wvAv.signiform.comitt/booW. (17.) L. G. Alexander, Longman English Gramm