A Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding

  • Authors:
  • Peter Norvig

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • A Unified Theory of Inference for Text Understanding
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

This thesis addresses the problem of understanding written English texts. The reader of a text is faced with a formidable task: recognizing the individual words of the text, deciding how they are structured into sentences, determining the explicit meaning of each sentence, and also making inferences about the likely implicit meaning of each sentence, and also making inferences about the likely implicit meaning of each sentence, and the implicit connections between sentences. This study is primarily concerned with the problem of inferencing, and touches on lexical and syntactic issues only in that they interact with the problem of inferencing.