About Norms and Causes
Abstract
Knowing the norms of a domain is crucial, but there exist no repository of norms. We propose a method to extract them from texts: texts generally do not describe a norm, but rather how a state-of-affairs differs from it. Answers concerning the cause of the state-of-affairs described often reveal the implicit norm. We apply this idea to the domain of driving, and validate it by designing algorithms that identify, in a text, the "basic" norms to which it refers implicitly.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- July 2006
- DOI:
- 10.48550/arXiv.cs/0607084
- arXiv:
- arXiv:cs/0607084
- Bibcode:
- 2006cs........7084K
- Keywords:
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- Computer Science - Artificial Intelligence
- E-Print:
- The 17th FLAIRS'04 Conference (2004) 502-507