by Chaudhri, Vinay K. and Waldinger, Richard and Starr, Barbara and Good, Benjamin
Technical Report Institution: SRI International
2000.
Abstract
This paper is about domain-independent theoretical generalizations derived in the process of formalizing aspects of commonsense reasoning. One of the generalizations is a qualitative model that has a template structure, can be applied to multiple reasoning tasks. Another model reduces to a composition of linear orders, making it easy to argue its formal properties. These models allow the population of a knowledge base (KB) by non-logicians. We present experimental results on evaluation of these, and other, models by subject matter experts (SMEs).
