ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we present a miniature version of the DMAP parser. This miniature has Lisp code not only for retrieving cases, but also for creating and handling predictions. The case library and lexicon are set up to parse two sentences: “Milton Friedman says interest rates will rise because of the monetary explosion,” and “Arthur Laffer says interest rates will drop.” The sentences are deliberately similar, to make things harder for micro DMAP. Micro DMAP has to determine that the object of the first sentence is a causal, whose antecedent looks almost, but not exactly, like the object of the second sentence, which has just a predicted event. If either sentence is parsed again, no new memory structures are created, because DMAP finds the result of the first parsing.
