5 papers
A database and lexicon of scripts for ThoughtTreasure
Erik T. Mueller
Since scripts were proposed in the 1970's as an inferencing mechanism for AI and natural language processing programs, there have been few attempts to build a database of scripts.…
Prospects for in-depth story understanding by computer
Erik T. Mueller
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…
Making news understandable to computers
Erik T. Mueller
Computers and devices are largely unaware of events taking place in the world. This could be changed if news were made available in a computer-understandable form. In this paper we…
A nested transaction mechanism for LOCUS
Erik T. Mueller, Johanna D. Moore, Gerald J. Popek
A working implementation of nested transactions has been produced for LOCUS, an integrated distributed operating system which provides a high degree of network transparency. Severa…
Towards a computational theory of human daydreaming
Erik T. Mueller, Michael G. Dyer
This paper examines the phenomenon of daydreaming: spontaneously recalling or imagining personal or vicarious experiences in the past or future. The following important roles of da…