Viewpoints are coherent collections of facts that describe a concept from a particular perspective. They are essential for a wide variety of tasks, such as explanation generation and qualitative modeling. We have identified many types of viewpoints and developed a program, the View Retriever, for extracting them from knowledge bases, either singly or in combinations. The View Retriever provides a general solution to the central problem in extracting viewpoints: determining which facts are relevant to requested viewpoints. Our evaluation indicates that viewpoints extracted by the View Retriever are comparable in coherence to those people construct.

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In Proceedings of the 12th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, 547-552, 1994.

@InProceedings{acker:aaai94, title={Extracting Viewpoints from Knowledge Bases}, author={Liane Acker and Bruce Porter }, booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence}, pages={547-552}, url="http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/ai-lab/pub-view.php?PubID=548", year={1994} }