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title: "SUPP: Understanding Moving Picture Patterns Based on Linguistic Knowledge"
authors:
  - "Naoyuki Okada"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/151"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1979/0151.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1979
pages: ""
track: ""
keywords:
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# SUPP: Understanding Moving Picture Patterns Based on Linguistic Knowledge

Naoyuki Okada

*Proceedings of the Sixth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*.

## Abstract

This paper presents a system for understanding moving picture patterns based on linguistic knowledge. In order to deal with the difference of knowledge level between picture pattern and natural language, a hierarchical structure is adopted for the representation of knowledge. At a certain level knowledge data is organized as frame centred around the concept of verb. The concepts of approximately five thousand Japanese verbs were systematically classified to construct such a knowledge system. The program reads a picture pattern sequence. Pairing a picture pattern wit.h the successive one in the sequence, it recognizes primitive pictures in the pair. Then, checking dynamic relations among primitive pictures , it organizes the relations into verb-centred events It makes inferences about similarity between two concepts of verbs . Finally it describes each event in Japanese and English.