Commonsense causal reasoning using millions of personal stories

Proceedings of the National Conference on Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 2, Issue , 2011, Pages 1180-1185

  Gordon, Andrew S ^a   Bejan, Cosmin Adrian ^a   Sagae, Kenji ^a  

^a University of Southern California   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATION; CAUSAL REASONING; CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS; CO-OCCURRENCE STATISTICS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL APPROACH; POINTWISE MUTUAL INFORMATION; WEBLOGS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; EXPERIMENTS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; SOFTWARE AGENTS;

AUTOMATA THEORY;

EID: 80055045390     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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