EL: A Formal, yet Natural, Comprehensive Knowledge Representation
Abstract
We present Episodic Logic (EL), a highly expressive knowledge representation well-adapted to general commonsense reasoning as well as the interpretive and inferential needs of natural language processing. One of the distinctive features of EL is its extremely permissive ontology, which admits situations (episodes, events, states of affairs, etc.), propositions, possible facts, and kinds and collections, and which allows representation of generic sentences. EL is natural language-like in appearance and supports intuitively understandable inferences. At the same time it is both formally analyzable and mechanizable as an efficient inference engine.
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Hwang and Schubert. "EL: A Formal, yet Natural, Comprehensive Knowledge Representation." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1993.Markdown
[Hwang and Schubert. "EL: A Formal, yet Natural, Comprehensive Knowledge Representation." AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 1993.](https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1993/hwang1993aaai-el/)BibTeX
@inproceedings{hwang1993aaai-el,
title = {{EL: A Formal, yet Natural, Comprehensive Knowledge Representation}},
author = {Hwang, Chung Hee and Schubert, Lenhart K.},
booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence},
year = {1993},
pages = {676-682},
url = {https://mlanthology.org/aaai/1993/hwang1993aaai-el/}
}