MAS.964
Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications
Fall 2006
Topics
- Introduction to Common Sense for Interactive Applications
- Common Sense in Languages and Cultures
- Applications Survey: Recommendation, Games
- Educational Applications
- Applications Survey: Inferring User Goals (Goose, Roadie, Creo/Miro/Adeo, etc.)
- No Meeting
- Tutorial on Commonsense Tools: OMCS, ConceptNet, EventNet, etc.
- Related Work (Cyc, ThoughtTreasure, Semantic Web, Conventional KR, etc.)
- Common Sense Inference
- Project Workshop & Critique
- Improving Knowledge Collection and Knowledge Quality
- Applications Survey: Affect, Personality, Viewpoints (Empathy Buddy, WWTT, Aesthetiscope, etc.)
- Project Workshop & Critique (cont.)
- Final Project Presentations
Readings
- Minsky, Marvin. “Commonsense-based Interfaces.” Communications of the ACM 43, no. 8 (2000): 66-73.
- Chung, Hyemin. “GlobalMind - Bridging the Gap Between Different Cultures and Languages with Common-sense Computing.” MIT MS Thesis. Cambridge, MA: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, August 2006.
- Musa, Rami, Madleina Scheidegger, Andrea Kulas, and Yoan Anguilet. “GloBuddy, a Dynamic Broad Context Phrase Book.” In Modeling and Using Context (Proceedings of the 4th International and Interdisciplinary Conference, CONTEXT 2003, Stanford, CA, USA, June 23-25, 2003). Edited by Patrick Blackburn, Chiara Ghidini, Roy M. Turner, and Fausto Giunchiglia. New York, NY: Springer, 2003, pp. 467-474. ISBN: 9783540403807.
- Chung, J., R. Kern, and H. Lieberman. “Topic Spotting Common Sense Translation Assistant.” In CHI ‘05 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems . New York, NY: ACM Press, 2005, pp. 1280-1283. ISBN: 9781581139983.
- Lieberman, Henry, Alexander Faaborg, José Espinosa, and Tom Stocky. “Common Sense on the Go: Giving Mobile Applications an Understanding of Everyday Life.” British Telecom Technology Journal 22, no. 4 (2004): 241-252.
- Lieberman, Henry, and Sybil Shearin. “Intelligent Profiling by Example.” In Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces . New York, NY: ACM Press, 2001, pp. 145-151. ISBN: 1581133251.
- Anacleto, J. C., A. F. P. De Carvalho, V. P. A. Neris, M. S. Godoi, S. Zem-Mascarenhas, and A. Talarico Neto. “How Can Common Sense Support Instructors with Distance Education?” In XVII Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação . Brasília, Brazil: SBIE, 2006, pp. 217-226. ISBN: 8576690942.
- Marcus, A. “Culture Class vs. Culture Clash.” Interactions 9, no. 3 (2002): 25-28.
- Matocha, J., T. Camp, and R. Hooper. “Extended Analogy: An Alternative Lecture Method.” SIGCSE Bulletin 30, no. 1 (1998): 262-266.
- Faaborg, A., and H. Lieberman. “A Goal-oriented Web Browser.” In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems . Edited by R. Grinter, T. Rodden, P. Aoki, E. Cutrell, R. Jeffries, and G. Olson. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2006, pp. 751-760. ISBN: 1595933727.
- Liu, Hugo, Henry Lieberman, and Ted Selker. “Goose: A Goal-oriented Search Engine with Commonsense.” In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems . New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2003, pp. 253-263. ISBN: 9783540437376.
- Lieberman, H., and H. Liu. “Adaptive Linking between Text and Photos Using Common Sense Reasoning.” In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems . Edited by P. D. Bra, P. Brusilovsky, and R. Conejo. Lecture Notes In Computer Science 2347 (2002): 2-11.
- Stocky, T., A. Faaborg, and H. Lieberman. “A Commonsense Approach to Predictive Text Entry.” In CHI ‘04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems . New York, NY: ACM Press, 2004, pp. 1163-1166. ISBN: 1581137036.
- Mueller, E. T. “A Calendar with Common Sense.” In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces . New York, NY: ACM Press, 2000, pp.198-201. ISBN: 9781581131345.
- Liu, H., and P. Singh. “ConceptNet - A Practical Commonsense Reasoning Tool-Kit.” BT Technology Journal 22, no. 4 (2004): 211-226.
- Singh, P., and W. Williams. “LifeNet: A Propositional Model of Ordinary Human Activity.” In Proceedings of the Workshop on Distributed and Collaborative Knowledge Capture at K-CAP 2003 . New York, NY: ACM Press, 2003. ISBN: 1581135831.
- Espinosa, Jose, and Henry Lieberman. “EventNet: Inferring Temporal Relations between Commonsense Events.” In Proceedings of the 4th Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence . Edited by Alexander Gelbukh, Álvaro de Albornoz, and Hugo Terashima-Marín. New York, NY: Springer-Verlag, 2005. ISBN: 9783540298960.
- Eslick, I., and H. Liu. “Langutils: A Natural Language Toolkit for Common Lisp.” In Proceedings of the International Lisp Conference (ILC'2005), 2005.
- Lenat, D. B. “CYC: A Large-scale Investment in Knowledge Infrastructure.” Communications of the ACM 38, no. 11 (1995): 33-38.
- Mueller, E.T. “ThoughtTreasure: A Natural Language/Commonsense Platform.” 1998.
- Davis, R., H. Shrobe, and P. Szolovits. “What Is a Knowledge Representation?” AI Magazine 14, no. 1 (1993): 17-33.
- Mueller, Erik. Commonsense Reasoning . San Francisco, CA: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, 2006. ISBN: 9780123693884.
- Cohen, William. “WHIRL: A Word-based Information Representation Language.” Artificial Intelligence 118, no. 1-2 (2000): 163-196.
- Choose something from this conference: 2005 Symposium on Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning, Corfu, Greece, May 2005.
- Vanderwende, Lucy. “Volunteers Created the Web.” In Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors: Papers from the 2005 Spring Symposium . Edited by Timothy Chklovski, Pedro Domingos, Henry Lieberman, Rada Mihalcea, and Push Singh. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 2005, pp. 84-90. ISBN: 9781577352297.
- Liu, H., H. Lieberman, and T. Selker. “A Model of Textual Affect Sensing Using Real-world Knowledge.” In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces . New York, NY: ACM Press, 2003, pp. 125-132. ISBN: 9781581135862.
- Mueller, Erik T., and Dyer, Michael G. “Towards a Computational Theory of Human Daydreaming.” In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society . Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1986, pp. 120-129. ISBN: 9780898599428.
- Binsted, K., and G. Ritchie. “An Implemented Model of Punning Riddles.” In Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence . Vol. 1. Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 1994, pp. 633-638. ISBN: 9780262611022.
- Liu, Hugo, and Pattie Maes. “The Aesthetiscope: Visualizing Aesthetic Readings of Text in Color Space.” In Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference . Menlo Park, CA: AAAI Press, 2005, pp. 74-79. ISBN: 9781577352341.
Fall 2002
Topics
- Introduction
- Common Sense in Interactive Applications: Aria, Emotus Ponens
- Collecting Common Sense Knowledge 1: Cyc
- Collecting Common Sense Knowledge 2: Open Mind, Thought Treasure
- Common Sense in Search
- Reasoning Techniques for Common Sense Inference
- Learning and Common Sense
- Guest Lecture: Erik Mueller
- Project Proposal Presentation & Discussion
- Common Sense for Natural Language Understanding
- The Web as a Common Sense Knowledge Base, the Semantic Web
- Common Sense Architectures and Integration with Other Paradigms
- Final Project Presentation & Discussion
Sources
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