Book description
To endow computers with common sense is one of the major long-term goals of artificial intelligence research. One approach to this problem is to formalize commonsense reasoning using mathematical logic. Commonsense Reasoning: An Event Calculus Based Approach is a detailed, high-level reference on logic-based commonsense reasoning. It uses the event calculus, a highly powerful and usable tool for commonsense reasoning, which Erik Mueller demonstrates as the most effective tool for the broadest range of applications. He provides an up-to-date work promoting the use of the event calculus for commonsense reasoning, and bringing into one place information scattered across many books and papers. Mueller shares the knowledge gained in using the event calculus and extends the literature with detailed event calculus solutions that span many areas of the commonsense world.
The Second Edition features new chapters on commonsense reasoning using unstructured information including the Watson system, commonsense reasoning using answer set programming, and techniques for acquisition of commonsense knowledge including crowdsourcing.
- Understand techniques for automated commonsense reasoning
- Incorporate commonsense reasoning into software solutions
- Acquire a broad understanding of the field of commonsense reasoning
- Gain comprehensive knowledge of the human capacity for commonsense reasoning
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Praise for Commonsense Reasoning
- Foreword to the First Edition
- Preface
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments to the First Edition
- Acknowledgments to the Second Edition
- New to the Second Edition
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Part I. Foundations
- Part II. Commonsense Phenomena
- Part III. Commonsense Domains
- Part IV. Default Reasoning
- Part V. Programs and Applications
- Part VI. Logical and Nonlogical Methods
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Part VII. Knowledge Acquisition
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Chapter 19: Acquisition of Commonsense Knowledge
- Abstract
- 19.1 Manual acquisition of commonsense knowledge
- 19.2 Crowdsourcing commonsense knowledge
- 19.3 Games for acquisition of commonsense knowledge
- 19.4 Mining commonsense knowledge
- 19.5 Event calculus reasoning over acquired commonsense knowledge
- 19.6 Comparison of acquisition methods
- 19.7 How big is human common sense?
- Bibliographic notes
- Exercises
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Chapter 19: Acquisition of Commonsense Knowledge
- Part VIII. Conclusion
- Part IX. Appendices
- Bibliography
- Author Index
- Subject Index
Product information
- Title: Commonsense Reasoning, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: November 2014
- Publisher(s): Morgan Kaufmann
- ISBN: 9780128016473
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