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Epistemic Structures of Interrogative Domains

Hughes, Cameron A.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1227285777

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2008, Master of Computing and Information Systems, Youngstown State University, Department of Computer Science and Information Systems.
At Ctest Laboratories we are exploring the notion of automated conversion of the semi-structured text to an epistemic structure suitable for deductive inference. In this paper we will develop an epistemic structured representation for electronic transcripts ofinterrogative domains. We propose that knowledge which is typically not visible to keyword search or string matching, can be readily extracted from the an electronic transcript when it is given an appropriate epistemic structure. We introduce an Epistemic Structure Es and a process for converting a semi-structured transcript from and interrogative domain to Es. In this paper we restrict our discussion and analysis to transcripts that have been stored as semi-structured text. In particular we are interested in any knowledge that can be deduced by an interrogative agent from the content of an electronic transcript. Further we develop the notion of an interrogative agent that relies on epistemic justification as a condition for knowledge.
Alina Lazar, PhD (Committee Chair)
John Sullins, PhD (Committee Member)
Yong Zhang, PhD (Committee Member)
49 p.
Artificial Intelligence; Computer Science; Information Systems; Linguistics; Technology
knowledge representation; natural language processing; agents; propositional knowledge; epistemic structures; semantic web; computational linguistics; logic programming; epistemic justification; frames

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  • Hughes, C. A. (2008). Epistemic Structures of Interrogative Domains [Master's thesis, Youngstown State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1227285777

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hughes, Cameron. Epistemic Structures of Interrogative Domains. 2008. Youngstown State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1227285777.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hughes, Cameron. "Epistemic Structures of Interrogative Domains." Master's thesis, Youngstown State University, 2008. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ysu1227285777

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