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title: "Recovering Problem-Solving Activities from Query Messages"
authors:
  - "Yoshihiko Hayashi"
doi: ""
url: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/220"
pdf: "https://ijcai.org/proceedings/1995/0220.pdf"
venue: "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence"
year: 1995
pages: "1711-1719"
track: "Planning"
keywords:
---

# Recovering Problem-Solving Activities from Query Messages

Yoshihiko Hayashi

*Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence*, pages 1711-1719.

## Abstract

We investigated a set of query messages taken from an Usenet newsgroup, and analyzed relations between the nature of problem-solving activities and their natural language descriptions . Based on the corpus investigation, this paper proposes an efficient computational mechanism for recovering problem-solving activities from query messages written in J a.pa.nese. The main claim of the paper is that the underlying problem-solving activity described in a natural language message can be efficiently recovered if provided with general knowledge on human problem-solving and the associated linguistic patterns in the descriptions.