Taxonomic Syntax for First-Order Inference

Most knowledge representation languages are based on classes and taxonomic relationships between classes. Taxonomic hierarchies without defaults or exceptions are semantically equivalent to a collection of formulas in first order predicate calculus. Although designers of knowledge representat...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: McAllester, David, Givan, Robert
Language:en_US
Published: 2004
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/6507