Output details
11 - Computer Science and Informatics
University of Greenwich
Output title
Deriving explanations from partial temporal information
Type
E - Conference contribution
DOI
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Name of conference/published proceedings
Proceedings of the Third International Workshop on
Explanation-aware Computing (ExaCt 2008), July 21-22, 2008
Volume number
391
Issue number
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First page of article
6
ISSN of proceedings
1613-0073
Year of publication
2008
Number of additional authors
2
Additional information
When human statements have a temporal element, they can be viewed as partial information about exact time stamps of events. A collection of such statements can be viewed as a database of known temporal facts. This paper shows how, given such a database, any temporal statement may be retrieved as “known true”, “known untrue” or “not known”. The technique is to add the contradiction of the fact to the database, and test for consistency. This work continues the work of the group on interval- and point-based time. It is a foundation for later work on incomplete temporal knowledge.
Interdisciplinary
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Cross-referral requested
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Research group
3 - Computer & Computational Science
Citation count
0
Proposed double-weighted
No
Double-weighted statement
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Reserve for a double-weighted output
No
Non-English
No
English abstract
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