English

About Norms and Causes

Artificial Intelligence 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Knowing the norms of a domain is crucial, but there exist no repository of norms. We propose a method to extract them from texts: texts generally do not describe a norm, but rather how a state-of-affairs differs from it. Answers concerning the cause of the state-of-affairs described often reveal the implicit norm. We apply this idea to the domain of driving, and validate it by designing algorithms that identify, in a text, the "basic" norms to which it refers implicitly.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0607084,
  title  = {About Norms and Causes},
  author = {Daniel Kayser and Farid Nouioua},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0607084},
  year   = {2007}
}