Most information extraction (IE) systems identify facts that are explicitly stated in text. However, in natural language, some facts are implicit, and identifying them requires ...
Abstract. Unlike people, household robots cannot rely on commonsense knowledge when accomplishing everyday tasks. We believe that this is one of the reasons why they perform poorly...
The purpose of this paper is twofold: (i) we argue that the structure of commonsense knowledge must be discovered, rather than invented; and (ii) we argue that natural language, w...
To be autonomous, intelligent robots must learn the foundations of commonsense knowledge from their own sensorimotor experience in the world. We describe four recent research resu...
Benjamin Kuipers, Patrick Beeson, Joseph Modayil, ...
This paper reports on our recent work on modeling and automatically extracting vague, implicit event durations from text (Pan et al., 2006a, 2006b). It is a kind of commonsense kn...
Abstract. Open Mind Common Sense is a knowledge acquisition system designed to acquire commonsense knowledge from the general public over the web. We describe and evaluate our firs...
Push Singh, Thomas Lin, Erik T. Mueller, Grace Lim...
Humans naturally share knowledge by telling stories. This is a form of knowledge exchange we engage in right from early childhood, and over time we learn to recall, order and orga...
One of the long-term goals of Artificial Intelligence is construction of a machine that is capable of reasoning about the everyday world the way humans are. In this paper, I fir...
This paper gives the SNAP and SPAN ontologies relating to recognizing variable vista spatial environments, namely, SNAPVis and SPANVis. It proposes that recognizing spatial environ...
One of the principal problems of online help is the mismatch between the specialized knowledge and technical vocabulary of experts who are providing the help, and the relative na...