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Understanding a Simple Arabic Stories Using Event Calculus

Mohamed Abd El-Salam1, Ahmed Kamal Hussein2 and Aly Aly Fahmy2
  • 1 Department of Basic Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt
  • 2 Department of Computer Science, Cairo University, Giza, Egypt

Abstract

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.

American Journal of Applied Sciences
Volume 10 No. 10, 2013, 1298-1306

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2013.1298.1306

Submitted On: 7 July 2013 Published On: 6 September 2013

How to Cite: El-Salam, M. A., Hussein, A. K. & Fahmy, A. A. (2013). Understanding a Simple Arabic Stories Using Event Calculus. American Journal of Applied Sciences, 10(10), 1298-1306. https://doi.org/10.3844/ajassp.2013.1298.1306

Open AccessCopyright: © 2013 Mohamed Abd El-Salam, Ahmed Kamal Hussein and Aly Aly Fahmy. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

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Keywords

  • Story Understanding
  • Animating Story
  • Event Calculus
  • Commonsense Reasoning
  • Reasoning about Action