Ghosts in the Machine: An AI Treatment of Medieval History
Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. Applications. Pages 873-878.
Abstract
This paper gives a generalized overview of RESEDA, an interactive question answering system designed primarily for use by historians. Its data base consists of historical information, which attemps to describe the attitudes, political, religious and interpersonal, of the chief characters of the period. Question answering is done bysearch of the data base and by inference on the information therein. The difficulties of representingthis type of data and of formulating inference rules dealing with human motivations and attitudes is also discussed.
@inproceedings{ijcai1977p205,
title = {Ghosts in the Machine: An AI Treatment of Medieval History},
author = {King, Margaret and Ornato, Monique and Zarri, Gian Piero and Zarri-Baldi, Lucia and Zwiebel, A.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-77}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Raj Reddy},
pages = {873--878},
year = {1977},
note = {Applications},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/205},
}
TY - CPAPER TI - Ghosts in the Machine: An AI Treatment of Medieval History AU - King, Margaret AU - Ornato, Monique AU - Zarri, Gian Piero AU - Zarri-Baldi, Lucia AU - Zwiebel, A. T2 - Proceedings of the Fifth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI-77 PB - International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence PY - 1977 SP - 873 EP - 878 UR - https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1977/205 ER -Copied
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