Report 85-12 The Complete Guide to MRS

MRS stands for Meta-level Representation System. If your response to this is a knowing nod of understanding you can probably skip the first few chapters. In a sense, MRS is a computer language, in that one enters text in a designated syntax and it gets processed and produces answers (or not). But because MRS is also able to reason with the information you give it, the'program' you enter can be seen more as representing facts than specifying a process. The importance and utility of this difference will become clear.