for putting these concepts in a hierarchy like that of Figure 4 4 is the inheritance of properties. Basically, anything which is true of all things fitting a larger description will be true of all things fitting more specific descriptions included in it. This is a first approximation. It is very… … Figure 4.4. A generalization hierarchy for time periods.
Winograd, Terry · Stanford univ ca dept of computer science · Artificial intelligence · Computer programming · Natural language · Programming languages · Reasoning · Semantics · Speech recognition · Syntax
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