Directing And Re-Directing Inference Pursuit: Extra-Textual Influences on Text Interpretation
Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence. INFERENCE and REASONING. Pages 354-360.
Abstract
Understanding a text depends on a reader's ability to construct a coherent interpretation that accounts for the statements in the text. However, a given text does not always imply a unique coherent interpretation. In particular, readers can be steered away from an otherwise plausible explanation for a story by such extra-textual factors as the source of the text, the reading purpose, interruptions during reading, or repeated re-questionlng of the reader. Some of these effects have been observed in experiments in cognitive psychology (e.g., Black [1980]). This paper presents a computer program called MACARTHUR that can vary both the depth and direction of its inference pursuit in response to re-questioning, resulting in a series of markedly different interpretations of the same text.
@inproceedings{ijcai1981p70,
title = {Directing And Re-Directing Inference Pursuit: Extra-Textual Influences on Text Interpretation},
author = {Granger, Richard H.},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on
Artificial Intelligence, {IJCAI-81}},
publisher = {International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence},
editor = {Roger C. Schank},
pages = {354--360},
year = {1981},
month = {8},
note = {INFERENCE and REASONING},
url = {https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/70},
}
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