Moving right along: a computational model of metaphoric reasoning about events

  • Authors:
  • Srinivas Narayanan

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • AAAI '99/IAAI '99 Proceedings of the sixteenth national conference on Artificial intelligence and the eleventh Innovative applications of artificial intelligence conference innovative applications of artificial intelligence
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper describes the results of an implemented computational model that cashes out the belief that reasoning about abstract events and actions relies on metaphoric projections of embodied primitives. The specific task addressed is the interpretation of simple causal narratives taken from newspaper articles in the domains of Politics and Economics. When presented with a surface-parsed version of these narratives as input, the system described is able to generate commonsense inferences consistent with the input.