COSI 112: Commonsense and Temporal Reasoning
For the Semantic Web
Brandeis University
Spring 2003
Time: Tue., Fri. 12:00-1:30 pm
Location: Volen 106
Professor: James Pustejovsky
258 Volen Center, jamesp@cs.brandeis.edu,
(781)
736 2709
Office hours: Wed., Fri. 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
TA: Roser Saurí
110 Volen Center, roser@cs.brandeis.edu
Office hours: ***
This course will discuss the notion of an intelligent agent,
particularly as devised for the semantic web. The prerequisites for
intelligent behavior by an agent are many, but in this course we
concentrate on two areas in particular: commonsense knowledge and
commonsense reasoning. Metadata specification for web content on a
large scale is impossible without commonsense reasoning.
We will revisit some of the classic
algorithms from early AI which were motivated by broad concerns of
general inference, reasoning about commonsense occurrences, and story
understanding. Much of this work has relevance today, and we will
elaborate on some recent work on simple inferences and story
understanding. We will review the basics of logical inference,
abductive
and non-monotonic reasoning, and then focus on ontologies for web
content. The last segment of the course will be a detailed examination
of a specification language and inference system designed for
reasoning about events and temporal expressions in language texts.
- Ernest Davis (1990)
Representations of Commonsense Knowledge
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers
- Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig (1995)
Artificial Intelligence. A Modern Approach.
Prentice Hall.
Late Policy
Assignments are due electronically by 11:59 pm on the date
given,
and charged a 5% late-fee per 24 hour day. They
won't be accepted a week after the due date. That police
will be
strictly adhered.
Grading
- 3 lab/programming exercises: 60% of the
grade.
- 2 theory assignments: 40% of the grade
Submit proceedure
To submit electronically, send the assignment to
cs112@cs.brandeis.edu.
L: Lab Exercise
T: Theory Assignment
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Intro to Common Sense Reasoning
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Intro to the Semantic Web
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