POLITICS: Automated Ideological Reasoning*
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- 1 January 1978
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in Cognitive Science
- Vol. 2 (1) , 27-51
- https://doi.org/10.1207/s15516709cog0201_3
Abstract
POLITICS is a system of computer programs which simulates humans in comprehending and responding to world events from a given political or ideological perspective. The primary theoretical motivations were: (1) the implemention of a functional system which applies the knowledge structures of Schank and Abelson (1977) to the domain of simulating political belief systems; (2) the development of a tentative theory of intentional goal conflicts and counterplanning. Secondary goals of the POLITICS project include developing a representation for belief systems, investigating cognitive processes such as goal-directed inferencing, and the integration of several types of knowledge representations into a functional system.Keywords
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