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| 1 | Introduction to Common Sense for Interactive Applications | Lieberman, Henry, Hugo Liu, Push Singh, and Barbara Barry. "Beating Common Sense into Interactive Applications." AI Magazine 25, no. 4 (2004): 63-76. and also choose at least one (1) from below: Minsky, Marvin. "Commonsense-based Interfaces." Communications of the ACM 43, no. 8 (2000): 66-73. Singh, P., M. Minsky, and I. Eslick. "Computing Commonsense." BT Technology Journal 22, no. 4 (2004): 201-210. |
| 2 | Common Sense in Languages and Cultures | Anacleto, Junia, Henry Lieberman, Marie Tsutsumi, Vânia Neris, Aparecido Carvalho, Jose Espinosa, and Silvia Zem-Mascarenhas. "Can Common Sense Uncover Cultural Differences in Computer Applications?" IFIP World Computer Conference. Santiago, Chile. August 2006. (PDF)# and also choose at least one (1) from below: 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.
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. |
| 3 | Applications Survey: Recommendation, Games | Shen, Edward, Henry Lieberman, and Francis Lam. "What Am I Gonna Wear: Scenario-Oriented Recommendation." (Forthcoming.) and also choose at least one (1) from below: Lieberman, Henry, Dustin Smith, and Alea Teeters. "Common Consensus: A Web-based Game for Collecting Commonsense Goals." (Forthcoming.) 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. |
| 4 | Educational Applications | 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. and also choose at least one (1) from below: 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. Stamm, S. "Mixed Nuts: Atypical Classroom Techniques For Computer Science Courses." Crossroads 10, no. 4 (2004): 3. (PDF)# |
| 5 | Applications Survey: Inferring User Goals (Goose, Roadie, Creo/Miro/Adeo, etc.) |
and also choose at least one (1) from below: Morgan, Bo. "Learning Perception Lattices to Compare Generative Explanations of Human-language Activity Stories." MIT, 2006. (PDF)# 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.
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| 6 | No Meeting | 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. and also choose at least one (1) from below: 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.
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| 7 | Tutorial on Commonsense Tools: OMCS, ConceptNet, EventNet, etc. | Liu, H., and P. Singh. "ConceptNet - A Practical Commonsense Reasoning Tool-Kit." BT Technology Journal 22, no. 4 (2004): 211-226. and also choose at least one (1) from below: 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.
Eslick, I., and H. Liu. "Langutils: A Natural Language Toolkit for Common Lisp." In Proceedings of the International Lisp Conference (ILC'2005), 2005. |
| 8 | Related Work (Cyc, Thought Treasure, Semantic Web, Conventional KR, etc.) | Lenat, D. B. "CYC: A Large-scale Investment in Knowledge Infrastructure." Communications of the ACM 38, no. 11 (1995): 33-38. and also choose at least one (1) from below: 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. Miller, G. A., et al. "Five Papers on WordNet." (PDF)# Berners-Lee, Tim, James Hendler, and Ora Lassila. "The Semantic Web." Scientific American 284, no. 5 (2001): 28-37. |
| 9 | Common Sense Inference | Davis, E., and L. Morgenstern. "Introduction: Progress in Formal Commonsense Reasoning." Artificial Intelligence 153, no. 1-2 (2004): 1-12. (PDF)# and also choose at least one (1) from below: McCarthy, J. "Programs with Common Sense." Teddington Conference on the Mechanization of Thought Processes, 1958. ———. "Applications of Circumscription to Formalizing Common-sense Knowledge." Artificial Intelligence 28, no. 1 (1986): 89-116.
Lenat, Doug. "The Dimensions of Context-Space." Austin, TX: CyCorp, 1998. (PDF - 2.7 MB)# Cohen, William. "WHIRL: A Word-based Information Representation Language." Artificial Intelligence 118, no. 1-2 (2000): 163-196. (PDF)# Choose something from this conference: 2005 Symposium on Formalization of Commonsense Reasoning, Corfu, Greece, May 2005. |
| 10 | Project Workshop & Critique | |
| 11 | Improving Knowledge Collection and Knowledge Quality | Chklovski, T., and Y. Gil. "Improving the Design of Intelligent Acquisition Interfaces for Collecting World Knowledge from Web Contributors." In Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Knowledge Capture. New York, NY: ACM Press, 2005, pp. 35-42. ISBN: 1595931635. (PDF) and also choose at least one (1) from below:
Richardson, S. D., W. B. Dolan, and L. Vanderwende. "MindNet: Acquiring and Structuring Semantic Information from Text." In Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Computational Linguistics. Vol. 2. Association for Computational Linguistics (1998): 1098-1102. 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. |
| 12 | Applications Survey: Affect, Personality, Viewpoints (Empathy Buddy, WWTT, Aesthetiscope, etc.) |
and also choose at least one (1) from below:
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. |
| 13 | Project Workshop & Critique (cont.) | |
| 14 | Final Project Presentations |
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We will require reading and writing short critiques of two or three papers per week. One paper will be assigned in class for everyone to read. Each week we will have a list of readings and you may choose one or two readings from the list (or one of your own choosing that is relevant to the week's theme). You should write a one-page review of the reading.