{"type":"ScholarlyArticle","title":"Building the Inference Component of an Historical Information Retrieval System","authors":[{"name":"Gian Piero Zarri","slug":"gian-piero-zarri","given":"Gian Piero","family":"Zarri","affiliation":""}],"abstract":"The principal characteristic of the RESEDA system is being able to question an historicaldatabase about the causal relationships which may exist between different attested !acts in the database, but which are not explicitly recorded . In order to do this the designers of RESEDA have created from scratch a methodology for the formalization and generalization of the reasoning used by historians in concrete situations. The description of the present state of this methodology is the object of this paper.","doi":null,"url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/78","pdf":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0078.pdf","markdown":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/78.md","bibtex":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/bibtex/78","volume":{"slug":"1981","title":"Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"IJCAI 1981","url":"https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/","year":1981,"location":"Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada","dates":"24-28 August 1981","editors":"Roger C. Schank","isbn":"","publisher":"International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence","doi_prefix":""},"section":"INFERENCE and REASONING","track":"INFERENCE and REASONING","number":78,"pages":{"first":401,"last":407},"keywords":[],"videos":[],"references":[],"license_note":"Copyright International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence."}