From the textual description of an accident to its causes

Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 173, Issue 12-13, 2009, Pages 1154-1193

  Kayser, Daniel ^a   Nouioua, Farid ^a  

^a Laboratoire d'Informatique de Paris Nord Villetaneuse   (France)

Author keywords

Causal reasoning; Inference based semantics; Natural language understanding; Norms; Semi normal defaults

Indexed keywords

CAUSAL REASONING; INFERENCE-BASED SEMANTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE UNDERSTANDING; NORMS; SEMI-NORMAL DEFAULTS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; INSURANCE; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

ACCIDENTS;

EID: 67449135857     PISSN: 00043702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.artint.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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