Showing papers on "Ontology (information science) published in 1986"

Kind Types in knowledge representation

Abstract: This paper describes Kind Types (KT), a system which uses commonsense knowledge to reason about natural language text. KT encodes some of the knowledge underlying natural language understanding, including category distinctions and descriptions differentiating real-world objects, states and events. It embeds an ontology reflecting the ordinary person's top-level cognitive model of real-world distinctions and a database of prototype descriptions of real-world entities. KT is transportable, empirically-based and constrained for efficient reasoning in ways similar to human reasoning processes.

An ontology of consciousness

Abstract: I-Psychological Methods of Observing Consciousness.- II-The Relation between Consciousness and Physiology.- III-The Ego as Continuity of Conscious Functions.- IV-Conscious Structures.- V-The Directed Attention Progression.