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Preferential cumulative reasoning and nonmonotonic semantic nets

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We first describe a decision procedure for purely cumulative and preferential cumulative reasoning which is based on a completion algorithm and computationally very simple: if a system of axioms is given, the completion leads to a canonical representation (called pool table) which organizes knowledge in the style of an encyclopedia. With this table, the decision whether an implication holds or not is trivial. We show in the second part of the paper that it is possible to assign in a natural way an inheritance graph structure to the columns of the table. Then usual network inheritance techniques may be applied and lead to a rather strong notion of consequence. Such network structures on encyclopaedias are interesting for natural language processing since nontrivial techniques for reasoning on the base of a background encyclopaedia would have various applications in text understanding and related areas.

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André Fuhrmann Michael Morreau

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Schulz, K.U. (1991). Preferential cumulative reasoning and nonmonotonic semantic nets. In: Fuhrmann, A., Morreau, M. (eds) The Logic of Theory Change. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 465. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0018423

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