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Processing Narratives By Means Of Action Languages, Craig Olson
Processing Narratives By Means Of Action Languages, Craig Olson
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In this work we design a narrative understanding system Text2ALM that can be used in Question Answering domains. System Text2ALM utilizes an action language 𝒜ℒℳ to perform inferences on complex interactions of events described in narratives. The methodology that Text2ALM follows in its implementation was originally outlined by Yuliya Lierler, Daniela Inclezan, and Michael Gelfond in 2017 via a manual process, and this work serves as a proof of concept in a large-scale environment. Our system automates the conversion of a narrative to an 𝒜ℒℳ model containing facts about the narrative. We make use of the VerbNet lexicon that we …