Kind Types in knowledge representation
Kathleen Dahlgren, J. McDowell · 1986
Tiffs paper describes Kind Types (KT), a system which uses commonsense knowledge to reason about natural language text.KT encodes some of the knowledge underlying natural language understanding, including category distinctions and descriptions dlffercntiating real-world objects, states and events.It embeds an ontology reflecting the ordinary person's top-level cognitive model of real-world distinctions and a database of prototype descriptions of real-world entities.KT is transportable, empirlcally-based and constrained for efficient reasoning in ways similar to human reasoning processes.