MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE "CONVERSATION" WITH CASSIE

A shorter version, with details on the natural-language processing and knowledge representation, appears in:

Shapiro, Stuart C., & Rapaport, William J. (1995), ``An Introduction to a Computational Reader of Narratives'', in Judith Felson Duchan, Gail A. Bruder, & Lynne E. Hewitt (eds.), Deixis in Narrative: A Cognitive Science Perspective (Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates): 79-105.

A slightly different, shorter conversation appears in

Rapaport, William J. (1988) "Syntactic Semantics: Foundations of Computational Natural-Language Understanding", in James H. Fetzer (ed.), Aspects of Artificial Intelligence (Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Kluwer Academic Publishers): 81-131.

• Reprinted (with numerous errors) in Eric Dietrich (ed.) (1994), Thinking Computers and Virtual Persons: Essays on the Intentionality of Machines (San Diego: Academic Press): 225-273.

A commented version of part of that slightly different, shorter conversation is in

Shapiro, Stuart C., & Rapaport, William J. (1987), "SNePS Considered as a Fully Intensional Propositional Semantic Network", in Nick Cercone & Gordon McCalla (eds.), The Knowledge Frontier: Essays in the Representation of Knowledge (New York: Springer-Verlag): 262-315.

• Earlier version preprinted as Technical Report 85-15 (Buffalo: SUNY Buffalo Department of Computer Science, 1985).

• shorter version appeared in Proceedings of the 5th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-86, Philadelphia) (Los Altos, CA: Morgan Kaufmann): 278-283.

• Revised version of the shorter version appears as "A Fully Intensional Propositional Semantic Network", in Leslie Burkholder (ed.), Philosophy and the Computer (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992): 75-91.

For more information on the Cassie projects, see:

Shapiro, Stuart C. (1989), ``The CASSIE Projects: An Approach to Natural Language Competence'', in Joao P. Martins & Ernesto M. Morgado (eds.), EPIA 89: 4th Portugese Conference on Artificial Intelligence Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence 390 (Berlin: Springer-Verlag): 362-380.

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