P. Terenziani, TOWARDS A CAUSAL ONTOLOGY COPING WITH THE TEMPORAL CONSTRAINTS BETWEEN CAUSES AND EFFECTS, International journal of human-computer studies, 43(5-6), 1995, pp. 847-863
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Psychology,Ergonomics,"Computer Sciences","Controlo Theory & Cybernetics","Computer Science Cybernetics
The paper describes a causal ontology in which the temporal implicatio
ns of causation (and, in particular, the temporal constraints it impos
es between causes and effects) are coped with in detail. It proposes a
classification of causal relations on the basis of the temporal const
raints they impose between their causes and effects, and further refin
es the basic classification for coping also with causation with thresh
old and with phenomena of production/consumption of stuff. Finally, th
e paper sketches an application of the causal ontology for developing
causal nets used as domain knowledge for natural language interpretati
on, and briefly addresses also the reasoning techniques required to th
is purpose. (C) 1995 Academic Press Limited