Computational verb systems: a new paradigm for artificial intelligence

Computational verb systems can help machines to implement, understand and use verbs as human perception of dynamics. By using computational verbs we can embed dynamical experiences of human experts into artificial intelligence. Computational verbs, which are models of verbs in nature languages, are basic building blocks of computational verb systems. In this paper, computational verbs are used to represent dynamical knowledge embedded by verbs as a new framework of knowledge representation. BE-transformations are used to transform statements containing dynamical verbs into statements only containing static verb BE; namely, BE-propositions. Based on BE-transformations, the computational verb logic can be built. Furthermore, reasoning with computational verbs can be built based on BE-transformations and basic verb logic operations. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.