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Prospects for in-depth story understanding by computer

Artificial Intelligence 2007-05-23 v1 Computation and Language

Abstract

While much research on the hard problem of in-depth story understanding by computer was performed starting in the 1970s, interest shifted in the 1990s to information extraction and word sense disambiguation. Now that a degree of success has been achieved on these easier problems, I propose it is time to return to in-depth story understanding. In this paper I examine the shift away from story understanding, discuss some of the major problems in building a story understanding system, present some possible solutions involving a set of interacting understanding agents, and provide pointers to useful tools and resources for building story understanding systems.

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@article{arxiv.cs/0003003,
  title  = {Prospects for in-depth story understanding by computer},
  author = {Erik T. Mueller},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0003003},
  year   = {2007}
}