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Showing 1 to 20 of 88 for “"Commonsense"”.
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Practical artificial commonsense
… speed and accuracy of such machines, can draw on commonsense intuitions to effortlessly improvise novel solutions to unexpected problems. The objective of artificial commonsense is to bring some measure of this powerful mental agility and understanding to robots and software systems. In this …
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Searching for commonsense
Acquiring and representing the large body of "common sense" knowledge underlying ordinary human reasoning and communication is a long standing problem in the field of artificial intelligence. This thesis will address the question whether a significant quantity of this knowledge may be acquired by …
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A commonsense approach to story understanding
… stories. Understanding stories requires commonsense knowledge. Many story understanding systems rely on rules to express and manipulate common sense, but the amount of common sense is vast and expressing significant amounts of common sense this way is tedious. Commonsense knowledge bases …
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A Turing Game for commonsense knowledge extraction
Commonsense is of primary interest to AI research since the inception of the field. Traditionally, commonsense knowledge is gathered by using humans to create and insert it in knowledge bases. Automating the collection of commonsense from text that is freely available can reduce the cost and effort …
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EM-ONE : an architecture for reflective commonsense thinking
This thesis describes EM-ONE, an architecture for commonsense thinking capable of reflective reasoning about situations involving physical, social, and mental dimensions. EM-ONE uses as its knowledge base a library of commonsense narratives, each describing the physical, social, and mental activity …
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MEng Thesis: Incorporating Structured Commonsense into Language Models
… by infusing them with information found in commonsense knowledge bases. Commonsense is basic knowledge about the world that humans are expected to have and is needed to achieve efficient communication. Often times, to understand texts, a person must use their commonsense to make implicit …
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Commonsense for Zero-Shot Natural Language Video Localization
… this work, we investigate the effectiveness of commonsense reasoning in zero-shot NLVL. Specifically, we present CORONET, a zero-shot NLVL framework that utilizes commonsense information to bridge the gap between videos and generated pseudo-queries through a commonsense enhancement module. Our …
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Expanding commonsense knowledge bases by learning from image tags
I present a method for learning new commonsense facts to augment existing commonsense knowledge bases by using the metadata of large online image collections. Online image collections present a source of knowledge that is supported by many contributors, has good representation of objects and their …
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Learning commonsense categorical knowledge in a thread memory system
… acquire, and reason about the kinds of commonsense knowledge that we humans have about the world. This endeavor suggests steps such as identifying the kinds of knowledge people commonly have about the world, constructing suitable knowledge representations, and exploring the mechanisms …
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Reducing complexity of consumer electronics interfaces using commonsense reasoning
… can provide better assistance to the user using Commonsense Reasoning leading to shorter interactions with the devices. Commonsense can infer the users' likely goals from watching their actions, and anticipate what capabilities of the device can fulfill the users' needs. As devices gain …
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Learning commonsense knowledge from the interpretation of individual experiences
… intelligence, we need to discover how we learn commonsense knowledge. We humans are able to infer generalizations of knowledge, make predictions about the future, and answer questions based on what we've experienced. In this thesis I present a method for performing these commonsense tasks in an …
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Using analogy to acquire commonsense knowledge from human Contributors
… goal of the work reported here is to capture the commonsense knowledge of non-expert human contributors. Achieving this goal will enable more intelligent human-computer interfaces and pave the way for computers to reason about our world. In the domain of natural language processing, it will …
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The inner life of goals : costs, rewards, and commonsense psychology
… this thesis I propose that children build their commonsense psychology around a basic assumption that agents choose goals and actions by quantifying, comparing, and maximizing utilities. This naive utility calculus generalizes infants' expectation that agents navigate efficiently, and captures …
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Semantic understanding and commonsense reasoning in an adaptive photo agent
Thesis (M.Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2002.
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Enhancing diversity in generative commonsense reasoning for explaining relationships between concepts
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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Visual intelligence for online communities : commonsense image retrieval by query expansion
… linguistics tools (WordNet and the OpenMind Commonsense database) to locate image keywords in a semantic network of interrelated concepts so that retrieval by keywords is automatically expanded semantically to avoid the hit-or-miss problem. Such semantic query expansion further alleviates the …
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Story understanding in Genesis : exploring automatic plot construction through commonsense reasoning
Whether through anecdotes, folklore, or formal history, humans learn the lessons and expectations of life from stories. If we are to build intelligent programs that learn as humans do, such programs must understand stories as well. Casting narrative text in an information-rich representation …
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STaRS.sys: designing and building a commonsense-knowledge enriched wordnet for therapeutic purposes
This thesis investigates the possibility to exploit human language resources and knowledge extraction techniques to build STaRS.sys, a software system designed to support therapists in the rehabilitation of Italian anomic patients. After an introductory section reviewing classification, assessment, …
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A Composite Syntactic-Semantic Interpretable Text Entailment Approach Exploring Commonsense Knowledge Graphs
… some scenario to the detriment of another. The commonsense world knowledge necessary to support more complex inferences is also usually employed in a limited way, with most approaches sticking to shallow semantic information, leaving more elaborate semantic relationships aside. Furthermore, most …
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Improving an image annotation and retrieval agent using commonsense and personal knowledge
… is proposed. This agent, ARIA, will combine commonsense knowledge, specific personal background information about the user, and the context in which they will use the images to assist him/her in the process of locating and using his/her images. The act of composing an email or webpage …
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