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MAS.964

Common Sense Reasoning for Interactive Applications

Graduate · Historical course

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

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
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