Epstein Secrets

e stories. An early system built by Charniak (9) used a single mechanism, test-action demons, for making inferences in understanding. In the 1970s, Schank and Abelson (10) proposed scripts, plans, and goals as knowledge structures for understanding. These knowledge structures were incorporated into the

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

e stories. An early system built by Charniak (9) used a single mechanism, test-action demons, for making inferences in understanding. In the 1970s, Schank and Abelson (10) proposed scripts, plans, and goals as knowledge structures for understanding. These knowledge structures were incorporated into the

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

le stories. An early system built by Chamiak (9) used a single mechanism, test-action demons, for making inferences in understanding. In the 1970s, Schank and Abelson (10) proposed scripts, plans, and goals as knowledge structures for understanding. These knowledge structures were incorporated into the

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