Solving mechanics problems using meta-level inference

  • Authors:
  • Alan Bundy;Lawrence Byrd;George Luger

  • Affiliations:
  • Chris Mellish & Martha Palmer., Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland;Chris Mellish & Martha Palmer., Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland;Chris Mellish & Martha Palmer., Department of Artificial Intelligence, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Venue:
  • IJCAI'79 Proceedings of the 6th international joint conference on Artificial intelligence - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

In this paper we shall describe a program (MECHO), written in Prolog[14], which solves a wide range of mechanics problems from statements in both predicate calculus and English. Mecho uses the technique of meta-level inference to control search in natural language understanding, common sense inference, model formation and algebraic manipulation. We argue that this is a powerful technique for controlling search while retaining the modularity of declarative knowledge representations.