Who knows what? : perspective-enabled story understanding
Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017
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| author | Noss, Jessica Marie. |
| author2 | Patrick H. Winston. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1131742019-06-27T13:20:35Z Who knows what? : perspective-enabled story understanding Perspective-enabled story understanding Noss, Jessica Marie. Patrick H. Winston. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2017 Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. Includes bibliographical references (page 63). Stories are essential to human communication, thus understanding stories is critical to modeling human intelligence. In order to understand a story from multiple characters' perspectives, a reader must form mental models representing each character's knowledge and beliefs. Building on the Genesis story-understanding system, I developed the Perspectives Expert, which enables Genesis to form detailed mental models of characters in a story. I started by annotating stories with characters' entrances and exits, treating stories as theatrical plays. I assumed that characters observe events only while onstage, and I used their observations to populate mental models. Then, inspired by human reasoning, I eliminated explicit stage directions and enabled Genesis to keep track of characters' locations and levels of consciousness. Equipped with this mental-modeling ability, Genesis can retell stories from different characters' perspectives, answer reading-comprehension questions to demonstrate understanding, and perform the first steps of conflict reconciliation by detecting and explaining opposing viewpoints. by Jessica Marie Noss. M. Eng. M.Eng. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science 2018-01-12T21:15:33Z 2018-01-12T21:15:33Z 2017 2017 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113174 1017490236 eng MIT theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed, downloaded, or printed from this source but further reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 63 pages application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Noss, Jessica Marie. Who knows what? : perspective-enabled story understanding |
| title | Who knows what? : perspective-enabled story understanding |
| title_full | Who knows what? : perspective-enabled story understanding |
| title_fullStr | Who knows what? : perspective-enabled story understanding |
| title_full_unstemmed | Who knows what? : perspective-enabled story understanding |
| title_short | Who knows what? : perspective-enabled story understanding |
| title_sort | who knows what perspective enabled story understanding |
| topic | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113174 |
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