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The 'Ah Ha!' Moment: When Possible, Answering the Currently Unanswerable using Focused Reasoning

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Abstract

Focused reasoning is a method for continuing a specific inference task as soon as rules or facts which may assist in the reasoning are added to the knowledge base without repeating completed inference, re-posing queries, or performing unnecessary inference. Determining if focused reasoning should commence uses very few computational resources above those used normally to add a term to a knowledge base. We have developed three focused reasoning procedures - backward-in-forward, forward, and forward-in-backward - built upon Inference Graphs, a graph-based concurrent reasoning mechanism.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014
PublisherThe Cognitive Science Society
Pages1371-1376
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9780991196708
StatePublished - 2014
Event36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014 - Quebec City, Canada
Duration: Jul 23 2014Jul 26 2014

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014

Conference

Conference36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2014
Country/TerritoryCanada
CityQuebec City
Period07/23/1407/26/14

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