Story Understanding: the Beginning of a Consensus (opens in new tab)

Story Understanding: the Beginning of a Consensus McDonald, David D. This paper is written for an Area Examination on the three papers: "A Framed PAINTING: The Representation of a Common Sense Knowledge Fragment" by Eugene Charniak, "Reporter: An Intelligent Noticer" by Steve Rosenberg, and "Using Plans to Understand Natural Language" by Robert Wilensky. Surprisingly, these papers share a common view of what it means to understand a story. The first part of this paper reviews the previous not...