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title: "Frame Activated Inferences in a Story Understanding Program"
authors:
  - "Peter Norvig"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/147"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1983/0147.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1983
pages: "624-625"
track: "Natural Language"
keywords:
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# Frame Activated Inferences in a Story Understanding Program

Peter Norvig

*Proceedings of the Eighth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 624-625.

## Abstract

An eff ective sto ry undcrst:.nder must be able to reason about characters in th e story, their affects, actions, plans, and goal s, as well as the settings and important points of the st o ry . In many sy stems this has been done with separate inference mechanis mR for each cl:l. ss of k r. :> wledge struc t ure. This paper proposes a story und erstander with a unified frame-bast'd inference component used on e ac h cl as s of knowledge structure.