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title: "The Nature of Generalization in Understanding"
authors:
  - "Michael Lebowitz"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/69"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0069.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "348-352"
track: "INFERENCE and REASONING"
keywords:
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# The Nature of Generalization in Understanding

Michael Lebowitz

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 348-352.

## Abstract

True l.l'lderstanding of natural lanJuage text requires the inclusion of generalization and loOJterm memory. 'Ihis paper describes the generalization . process and memory used in the Integrated Partial Parser (IPP), a comp.Jter program that reads and remembers news stories, 'Ihe need for generalization and generalization-based memory as an integral part of l.l"lderstanding natural language text is illustrated with examples from IPP. In addition, the nature of generalization is discussed.