Hobbs, J., Croft, W., Davies, T., Edwards, D., & Laws, K. (1987). Commonsense metaphysics and lexical semantics. Computational linguistics, 13(3-4), 241-250.
Abstract
In the TACITUS project for using commonsense knowledge in the understanding of texts about mechanical devices and their failures, we have been developing various commonsense theories that are needed to mediate between the way we talk about the behavior of such devices and causal models of their operation.
