?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&rft.title=Prospects+for+in-depth+story+understanding+by+computer&rft.creator=Mueller%2C+Erik+T.&rft.subject=Artificial+Intelligence&rft.subject=Computational+Linguistics&rft.description=While+much+research+on+the+hard+problem+of+in-depth+story+understanding+by+computer+was+performed+starting+in+the+1970s%2C+interest+shifted+in+the+1990s+to+information+extraction+and+word+sense+disambiguation.+Now+that+a+degree+of+success+has+been+achieved+on+these+easier+problems%2C+I+propose+it+is+time+to+return+to+in-depth+story+understanding.+In+this+paper+I+examine+the+shift+away+from+story+understanding%2C+discuss+some+of+the+major+problems+in+building+a+story+understanding+system%2C+present+some+possible+solutions+involving+a+set+of+interacting+understanding+agents%2C+and+provide+pointers+to+useful+tools+and+resources+for+building+story+understanding+systems.&rft.date=1999-11&rft.type=Preprint&rft.type=NonPeerReviewed&rft.format=text%2Fhtml&rft.identifier=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F554%2F1%2Fstoryund.htm&rft.identifier=++Mueller%2C+Erik+T.++(1999)+Prospects+for+in-depth+story+understanding+by+computer.++%5BPreprint%5D+++++&rft.relation=http%3A%2F%2Fcogprints.org%2F554%2F