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Contextual Representations of Cause via Reasoning about Actions and Change
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | LeBlanc, Emily C. Balduccini, Marcello |
| Copyright Year | 2017 |
| Abstract | In Causality,actual causecan be defined as an event determined to be responsible for bringing about a given outcome in a specific scenario. For example, Socrates drinking hemlock can be viewed as the actual cause of the philosopher’s death. However, it is also reasonable to consider why he consumed it in the first place — if he was forced to drink the hemlock as punishment for a crime, then is his acting against the law another cause of his death? Clearly, an outcome can be associated with multiple actual causes and choosing the most suitable among them often requires considering the context of the inquiry. In this paper, we introduce the concept of cause with context (CwC), a variation on the notion of actual cause that considers contextual information about a cause’s relationship to the domain in which it has occurred. We present a novel framework for representing CwCs, inspired by Counterfactual Reasoning and making use of techniques from Reasoning about Actions and Change to support reasoning over domains that change over time. We also present an approach for computing CwCs via Answer Set Programming. |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.mbal.tk/papers/lb17.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
