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  <Title>Story understanding through multi-representation model construction</Title>
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Abstract
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We present an implemented model of story understanding and apply it to the understanding of a children's story. We argue that understanding a story consists of building multi-representation models of the story and that story models are efficiently constructed using a satisfiability solver. We present a computer program that contains multiple representations of commonsense knowledge, takes a narrative as input, transforms the narrative and representations of commonsense knowledge into a satisfiability problem, runs a satisfiability solver, and produces models of the story as output.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> The narrative, models, and representations are expressed in the language of Shanahan's event calculus.</Paragraph>
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