CHAPTER 9 STRUCTURED DESCRIPTIONS
In Chapter 8, we looked at knowledge organization inspired by our natural tendency to think in terms of categories of objects. However, the frame representation seen there focused more on the organization and invocation of procedures than on inferences about the objects and categories themselves. Reasoning about objects in everyday thinking goes well beyond the simple cascaded computations seen in that chapter, and is based on considerations like the following:
objects naturally fall into categories (e.g., my pet is a dog, my wife is a physician), but are very often thought of as being members of multiple categories ...Get Knowledge Representation and Reasoning now with the O’Reilly learning platform.
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