We present Web-STAR, an online platform for story understanding built on top of the STAR reasoning engine for STory comprehension through ARgumentation. The platform includes a web-based IDE, integration with the STAR system, and a web service infrastructure to support integration with other systems that rely on story understanding functionality to complete their tasks. The platform also delivers a number of "social" features, including a community repository for public story sharing with a built-in commenting system, and tools for collaborative story editing that can be used for team development projects and for educational purposes.
In the 1970's, Charniak presented two systems. In his early work @cite_37 , a model was presented for answering questions related to children's stories by relating them to real-world background knowledge. The model used an internal representation language for the story and required an expert user to encode it. In his later work @cite_50 , a program called Ms Malaprop was presented, for answering questions posed in a simple story. A semantic representation was used for encoding stories, questions, and answers in the program. The program used commonsense knowledge captured in the frame representation of mundane'' painting.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering. Thesis. 1972. Ph.D. This paper describes Ms. Malaprop, a program (currently being designed) which will answer questions about simple stories dealing with painting, where stories, questions and answers will be expressed in semantic representation rather than English in order to allow concentration on the inferential problems involved in language comprehension. The common sense knowledge needed to accomplish the task is provided by the frame representation of "mundane" painting found in Charniak (1976b). The present paper, after reviewing this representation, goes on to describe how it is used by Ms. Malaprop. Some specific questions of matching, correcting false conclusions, and search, will be discussed.