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SNePS 1989: Current Trends in SNePS — Semantic Network Processing System pp 107–121Cite as

Representing fiction in SNePS

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This paper discusses issues in the representation of fictional entities and the representation of propositions from fiction, using SNePS. It briefly surveys four philosophical ontological theories of fiction and sketches an epistemological theory of fiction (to be implemented in SNePS) using a story operator and rules for allowing propositions to “migrate” into and out of story “spaces”.

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  1. Department of Computer Science and Center for Cognitive Science, State University of New York at Buffalo, 14260, Buffalo, NY

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Rapaport, W.J. (1990). Representing fiction in SNePS. In: Kumar, D. (eds) Current Trends in SNePS — Semantic Network Processing System. SNePS 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 437. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022087

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