Common Sense for Interactive Applications
Henry Lieberman and Hugo Liu
Fall semester 2005
Course Syllabus
(Subject to change)
13 September: Introduction to Common Sense for Interactive Applications
Readings
H Lieberman, H Liu, P Singh, B Barry: 2004, Beating common sense into interactive applications, AI Magazine 25(4): 63-76. AAAI Press.
and also choose at least one (1) from below:
M Minsky: 2000, Commonsense-based interfaces, Communications of the ACM 43(8): 67-73. ACM Press.
P Singh, et al.: 2002, Open Mind Common Sense: knowledge acquisition from the general public, Proceedings of AAAI-2002. AAAI Press.
20 September: Applications survey: Affect, personality, viewpoints, culture
(Empathy Buddy, WWTT, Aesthetiscope, etc.)
Readings
H Liu, H Lieberman, T Selker: 2003, A model of textual affect sensing using real-world knowledge. Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces 2003, ACM Press, pp 125-132.
and also choose at least one (1) from below:
H Liu, P Maes: 2004, What would they think? A computational model of attitudes. Proceedings of Intelligent User Interfaces 2004, ACM Press, pp. 38-45
ET Mueller, MG Dyer: 1985, Towards a computational theory of human daydreaming. Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, pp. 120-129
K Binsted, G Ritchie: 1994, An implemented model of punning riddles. Proceedings of the American Association of Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press.
H Liu, P Maes: 2005, The aesthetiscope: visualizing aesthetic readings of text in color space. Proceedings of AI in Music and Art, FLAIRS 2005, AAAI Press, pp. 74-79
27 September: Applications survey: Query expansion and sanity checking (Aria,
Typing & Speech, Globuddy, etc.)
Readings
H Lieberman, H Liu: 2002, Adaptive linking between text and photos using common sense reasoning, Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web Systems. LNCS 2347, Springer.
and also choose at least one (1) from below:
T Stocky, A Faaborg, H Lieberman: 2004, A commonsense approach to predictive text entry, Proceedings of Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM Press, pp. 1163-1166.
R Musa, M Scheidegger, A Kulas, Y Anguilet: 2003, Globuddy, a dynamic broad context phrase book, Proceedings of CONTEXT 2003. LNCS 2680, pp. 467-474
J Chung, R Kern, H Lieberman: 2004, Topic spotting common sense translation assistant, Proceedings of CHI 2005. ACM Press. pp. 1280-1283
ET Mueller: 2000, A calendar with common sense. Proceedings of the 2000 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. ACM Press. pp. 198-201
4 October: Applications survey: Inferring user goals (Goose, Roadie, Creo/Miro/Adeo,
etc.)
Readings
H Liu, H Lieberman, T Selker: 2002, Goose: a goal-oriented search engine with commonsense, Conference on Adaptive Hypermedia and Adaptive Web-Based Systems, LNCS 2347 Springer, pp. 253-263.
and also choose at least one (1) from below:
A Faaborg, H Lieberman: 2005, A goal-oriented Web browser. September 2005.
J Espinosa, H Lieberman: 2005, A Goal-Oriented Interface to Consumer Electronics using Planning and Commonsense Reasoning, September 2005.
H Lieberman, A Kumar: 2005,Providing expert advice by analogy for on-line help, ACM/IEEE Conference on Web Intelligence & Intelligent Agent Technology, Compiègne, France.
Earl Wagner and Henry Lieberman: 2004, Supporting user hypotheses in problem diagnosis on the web and elsewhere, Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. ACM Press.
11 October: Tutorial on Commonsense tools: OMCS, ConceptNet, EventNet, etc.
Readings
H Liu, P Singh: 2004, ConceptNet: a practical commonsense reasoning toolkit, BT Technology Journal 22(4). Kluwer Academic Publishers. [Download/Website]
and also choose at least one (1) from below:
P Singh, T Lin, ET Mueller, G Lim, T Perkins, WL Zhu: 2002, Open Mind Common Sense: knowledge acquisition from the general public. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Ontologies, Databases, and Applications of Semantics for Large Scale Information Systems. LNCS Springer-Verlag. [Download/Website]
P Singh,W Williams: 2003, LifeNet: a propositional model of ordinary human activity. Proceedings of the Workshop on Distributed and Collaborative Knowledge Capture at K-CAP 2003. [Download/Website]
J Espinosa, H Lieberman: 2005, EventNet: inferring temporal relations between commonsense events. Proceedings of the Mexican Conference on Artificial Intelligence. LNCS Springer.
H Liu: 2004, MontyLingua: python/java natural language parser. [Download/Website]
18 October: (Media Lab Hell Week, no meeting)
25 October: Project proposal presentations
1 November: Related Work (Cyc, ThoughtTreasure, Semantic Web, Conventional KR,
etc.)
Readings
DB Lenat: 1995, Cyc: a large-scale investment in knowledge infrastructure. Communications of the ACM 38(11).
and also choose at least one (1) from below:
ET Mueller: 1998, ThoughtTreasure: a natural language/commonsense platform. Accessed from http://www.signiform.com/tt/htm/overview.htm.
R Davis, H Shrobe, P Szolovits: 1993, What is a knowledge representation? AI Magazine, 14(1):17-33.
GA Miller et al.: Five papers on WordNet. Princeton University.
T Berners-Lee, J Hendler, O Lassila: 2001, The semantic web. Scientific American 284(5), pp. 28-37. May, 2001.
8 November: Common Sense Inference
Readings
E Davis, L Morgenstern: 2004, Progress in formal commonsense reasoning, Introduction to the Special Issue on Formalization of Common Sense. Artificial Intelligence Journal 153(1–2): 1–12.
and also choose at least one (1) from below:
J McCarthy: 1958, Programs with common sense, Teddington Conference on the Mechanization of Thought Processes, December 1958.
J McCarthy: 1986, Applications of circumscription to formalizing common sense knowledge, Artificial Intelligence.
E Mueller 2006, Commonsense Reasoning (forthcoming book, preprint available), Morgan Kaufmann, San Francisco.
D Lenat: The dimensions of context space, CyCorp.
W Cohen: 1988, WHIRL: a word-based information representation language, Artificial Intelligence Journal.
Choose something from conference, 2005 Symposium on Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning, Corfu, Greece, May 2005.
15 November: Project workshop & critique
22 November: Improving knowledge collection and knowledge quality
Readings
T Chklovski, Y Gil: 2005, Improving the design of intelligent acquisition interfaces for collecting world knowledge from web contributors. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Knowledge Capture (K-CAP 2005). October 2-5, 2005, Banff, Canada.
and also choose at least one (1) from below:
C Matuszek, M Witbrock, R Kahlert, J Cabral, D Schneider, P Shah, D Lenat: 2005, Searching for common sense: populating Cyc from the web. Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Lv Ahn and L Dabbish: 2004, Labeling images with a computer game, ACM Conference on Computers and Human Interaction (CHI-2004).
SD Richardson, WB Dolan, L Vanderwende: 1998, MindNet: acquiring and structuring semantic information from text, ACL'98: 36th Annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics and 17th International conference on computational linguistics, ACL, 1998, CONF 17, Vol. 2, pp. 1098-1102.
L Vanderwende: 2005, Volunteers created the web. Proceedings of the AAAI 2005 Spring Symposium Series, working notes of the symposium on Knowledge Collection from Volunteer Contributors. Stanford, CA.
29 November: Related work from other relevant fields (Philosophy, Cognitive
Psychology, Linguistics, etc.)
Readings
M Minsky: forthcoming, The emotion machine, Chapter 6: Common Sense.
and also choose at least one (1) from below:
G Lakoff: 1992, The contemporary theory of metaphor. In A Ortony (ed.) Metaphor and thought (2nd edition), Cambridge University Press.
M Minsky: 1980, Jokes and their relation to the cognitive unconscious. In Vaina & Hintikka (eds.) Cognitive constraints on communication. Reidel, 1981.
R Barthes: 1964, Language and Speech (Part I), Elements of semiology. publ. Hill and Wang, 1968.
D Gelernter: 1994, The muse in the machine: computerizing the poetry of human thought (excerpt), Free Press.
H Liu: 2004, Articulation, the letter, and the spirit in the aesthetics of narrative, ACM workshop on story representation, mechanism, context. ACM Press.
CG Jung: 1954/1981, Archetypes of the collective unconscious. In RFC Hull (trans.) Collected Works of CG Jung, Vol. 9 Part 1. Bollingen Publishers.
6 December: Project workshop & critique
13 December: Final project presentations