TY - JOUR AU - El-Salam, Mohamed Abd AU - Hussein, Ahmed Kamal AU - Fahmy, Aly Aly PY - 2013 TI - Understanding a Simple Arabic Stories Using Event Calculus JF - American Journal of Applied Sciences VL - 10 IS - 10 DO - 10.3844/ajassp.2013.1298.1306 UR - https://thescipub.com/abstract/ajassp.2013.1298.1306 AB - This study investigates the use of event calculus for understanding stories written in Arabic natural language. System makes a representation for commonsense knowledge and story events and then performs a commonsense reasoning to infer the details events which are not explicitly described in the story; furthermore it manages changes in objects properties over time and handles the actions synchronizations problem.