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Temporal and Contextual Reasoning in PLN

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In this chapter we review the temporal and causal PLN relationship types and rules that are used to guide these sorts of inference in PLN, and give some simple examples to illustrate how they are used. In the following chapters we will present more elaborate examples of spatiotemporal reasoning, using these constructs and ideas.

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Goertzel, B., Geisweiller, N., Coelho, L., Janicic, P., Pennachin, C. (2011). Temporal and Contextual Reasoning in PLN. In: Real-World Reasoning: Toward Scalable, Uncertain Spatiotemporal, Contextual and Causal Inference. Atlantis Thinking Machines, vol 1. Atlantis Press. https://doi.org/10.2991/978-94-91216-11-4_13

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