Download or read book Association for Computational Linguistics 39th Annual Meeting and 10th Conference of the European Chapter written by Association for Computational Linguistics. Meeting and published by Morgan Kaufmann. This book was released on 2001 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Philosophers have long been fascinated by the connection between cause and effect: are causes things we can experience or are they concepts provided by our minds? The study of causation goes back to Aristotle, but resurged with David Hume and Immanuel Kant, and is now one of the most important topics in metaphysics. Most of the recent work done in this area has attempted to place causation in a deterministic, scientific worldview. But what about the unpredictable and chancey world we actually live in: can one theory of causation cover all instances of cause and effect?