Inferences, suppositions and explanatory extensions in argument interpretation

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 439-474

  George, Sarah ^a,b   Zukerman, Ingrid ^a   Niemann, Michael ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CVS Dude   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Discourse interpretation; Explanatory extensions; Probabilistic approach; Suppositions

Indexed keywords

BAYESIAN NETWORKS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; USER INTERFACES; WEB SERVICES;

DISCOURSE INTERPRETATION; EXPLANATORY EXTENSIONS; PROBABILISTIC APPROACH; SUPPOSITIONS;

PROBABILISTIC LOGICS;

EID: 36549000823     PISSN: 09241868     EISSN: 15731391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11257-007-9034-9     Document Type: Article

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