---
title: "Commonsense Reasoning with Verbs"
authors:
  - "Joyce P. McDowell"
  - "Kathleen Dahlgren"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/88"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1987/0088.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1987
pages: "446-447"
track: "Knowledge Representation"
keywords:
---

# Commonsense Reasoning with Verbs

Joyce P. McDowell, Kathleen Dahlgren

*Proceedings of the Tenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 446-447.

## Abstract

KT encodes commonsense knowle9ge (CK) about entities and relations in a cross-classified Ontology and a database of generic (prototypical and inherent) information. The verb Ontology combines linguistic and psycholinguistic classification. The generic information for verbs encodes typical associations with actions and events. This knowledge base is useful for word-sense disambiguation, inferencing without scripts, discourse reasoning, and post-verbal PP attachment.