Michael G. Dyer

ICML Conference 2002 Conference Paper

Learning Spatial and Temporal Correlation for Navigation in a 2-Dimensional Continuous World

• Anand Panangadan
• Michael G. Dyer

AIJ Journal 1991 Journal Article

A society of ideas on cognition

• Michael G. Dyer

IJCAI Conference 1989 Conference Paper

Storing and Generalizing Multiple Instances While Maintaining Knowledge-Level Parallelism

• Ronald A. Sumida
• Michael G. Dyer

IJCAI Conference 1987 Conference Paper

Naive Mechanics Comprehension and Invention in EDISON

• Michael G. Dyer
• Margot Flowers
• Jack Hodges

IJCAI Conference 1985 Conference Paper

Daydreaming in Humans and Computers

• Erik T. Mueller
• Michael G. Dyer

IJCAI Conference 1985 Conference Paper

Learning to Understand Contractual Situations

• Seth R. Goldman
• Michael G. Dyer
• Margot Flowers

IJCAI Conference 1985 Conference Paper

Understanding Analogies in Editorials

• Stephanie E. August
• Michael G. Dyer

The widespread use of analogy in human communication underscores the need for a system which can recognize and understand analogies. This paper presents a theory of analogy recognition and comprehension, using as a domain letters to the editor of a weekly news magazine. Some of the issues facing a system which understands analogies in this domain are identified, initial work on this program is reviewed, and work in progress is discussed.

AIJ Journal 1983 Journal Article

BORIS—An experiment in in-depth understanding of narratives

• Wendy G. Lehnert
• Michael G. Dyer
• Peter N. Johnson
• C.J. Yang
• Steve Harley

boris is an experimental story understanding and question answering system which deals with the specification and interaction of many sources of knowledge. Unlike skimmers, which simply extract the “gist” of a story in a top-down manner and ignore everything else, boris attempts to understand everything that it reads to as great a depth as possible. This report focuses on how the boris program handles a complex story involving a divorce.

IJCAI Conference 1983 Conference Paper

Understanding Stories Through Morals and Reminding

• Michael G. Dyer

AAAI Conference 1982 Conference Paper

Affect Processing for Narratives

• Michael G. Dyer

This paper presents a theory of AFFECT processing in the context of BORIS [Dyer, 1982] [Dyer, 1981a], a computer program designed to read and answer questions about complex narratives. Here, "complex" entails the coordination, application and search of many distinct sources of knowledge during both comprehension and question answering. This paper concentrates only on those structures and processes which interact with affect situations. The affect component in BORIS is not a separate module, but rather a series of structures and processes which arise as various lexical items are encountered during narrative comprehension and question answering [Dyer, 198lb].