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title: "Building the Inference Component of an Historical Information Retrieval System"
authors:
  - "Gian Piero Zarri"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/78"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1981/0078.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1981
pages: "401-407"
track: "INFERENCE and REASONING"
keywords:
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# Building the Inference Component of an Historical Information Retrieval System

Gian Piero Zarri

*Proceedings of the Seventh International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 401-407.

## 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.