Modeling knowledge-based inferences in story comprehension
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Modeling knowledge-based inferences in story comprehension
A computational model of inference during story comprehension is presented, in which story situations are represented distributively as points in a high-dimensional “situation-state space.” This state space organizes itself on the basis of a constructed microworld description. From the same description, causal/temporal world knowledge is extracted. The distributed representation of story situat...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Cognitive Science
سال: 2003
ISSN: 0364-0213
DOI: 10.1207/s15516709cog2706_3