An implemented system for metaphor-based reasoning, with special application to reasoning about agents

摘要: An implemented system called ATT-Meta (named for propositional ATTitudes and Metaphor) is sketched. It performs a type of metaphor-based reasoning. Although it relies on built-in knowledge specific metaphors, where metaphor conceptual view one topic as another, flexible in allowing novel discourse manifestations those metaphors. The flexibility comes partly from semantic agnosticism with regard to metaphor, other words not insisting that metaphorical utterances should always have meanings. reasoning integrated into general uncertain framework, enabling the cope uncertainty research has focused metaphors mental states (though algorithms are restricted scope), consequently throws light agent descriptions natural language discourse, multi-agent scenarios, personification non-agents, about agents' thoughts. also naturally leads an approach chained metaphor.