IPP Program Description

IPP ( the I n t e g r a t e d P a r t i a l Parser) is a complete unders tand ing system t h a t reads news s t o r i e s and reco rds them in a l ong te rm ep i sod i c memory. IPP l e a r n s about the wor ld by reading s t o r i e s taken f rom newspapers and the UPI news w i r e , adding i n f o r m a t i o n from these s t o r i e s to memory, and making g e n e r a l i z a t i o n s t h a t desc r i be s p e c i f i c s i t u a t i o n s . I t s p r imary domain i s i n t e r n a t i o n a l t e r r o r i s m . IPP uses the g e n e r a l i z a t i o n s t h a t i t has made to h e l p in understanding f u t u r e s t o r i e s . A complete d e s c r i p t i o n of IPP can be found in [ 1 ] ,