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Adding Semantic Web Knowledge to Intelligent Personal Assistant Agents
Intelligent Personal Assistant (IPA) agents are software agents which assist users in performing specific tasks. They should be able to communicate, cooperate, discuss, and guide people. This paper presentsa proposal to add Semantic Web Knowledge to IPA agents. In our solution,the IPA agent has a modular knowledge organization composed by four differentiated areas: (i) the rational area, which adds semantic webknowledge, (ii) the association area, which simplifies building appropriate responses, (iii) the commonsense area, which provides common sense responses, and (iv) the behavioral area, which allows IPA agents to show empathy. Our main objective is to create more intelligent and more humana alike IPA agents, enhancing the current abilities that these software agents provide
Going Deeper with Semantics: Video Activity Interpretation using Semantic Contextualization
A deeper understanding of video activities extends beyond recognition of
underlying concepts such as actions and objects: constructing deep semantic
representations requires reasoning about the semantic relationships among these
concepts, often beyond what is directly observed in the data. To this end, we
propose an energy minimization framework that leverages large-scale commonsense
knowledge bases, such as ConceptNet, to provide contextual cues to establish
semantic relationships among entities directly hypothesized from video signal.
We mathematically express this using the language of Grenander's canonical
pattern generator theory. We show that the use of prior encoded commonsense
knowledge alleviate the need for large annotated training datasets and help
tackle imbalance in training through prior knowledge. Using three different
publicly available datasets - Charades, Microsoft Visual Description Corpus and
Breakfast Actions datasets, we show that the proposed model can generate video
interpretations whose quality is better than those reported by state-of-the-art
approaches, which have substantial training needs. Through extensive
experiments, we show that the use of commonsense knowledge from ConceptNet
allows the proposed approach to handle various challenges such as training data
imbalance, weak features, and complex semantic relationships and visual scenes.Comment: Accepted to WACV 201
Explainable and Ethical AI: A Perspective on Argumentation and Logic Programming
In this paper we sketch a vision of explainability of intelligent systems as a logic approach suitable to be injected into and exploited by the system actors once integrated with sub-symbolic techniques.
In particular, we show how argumentation could be combined with different extensions of logic programming – namely, abduction, inductive logic programming, and probabilistic logic programming – to address the issues of explainable AI as well as some ethical concerns about AI
REBA: A Refinement-Based Architecture for Knowledge Representation and Reasoning in Robotics
This paper describes an architecture for robots that combines the
complementary strengths of probabilistic graphical models and declarative
programming to represent and reason with logic-based and probabilistic
descriptions of uncertainty and domain knowledge. An action language is
extended to support non-boolean fluents and non-deterministic causal laws. This
action language is used to describe tightly-coupled transition diagrams at two
levels of granularity, with a fine-resolution transition diagram defined as a
refinement of a coarse-resolution transition diagram of the domain. The
coarse-resolution system description, and a history that includes (prioritized)
defaults, are translated into an Answer Set Prolog (ASP) program. For any given
goal, inference in the ASP program provides a plan of abstract actions. To
implement each such abstract action, the robot automatically zooms to the part
of the fine-resolution transition diagram relevant to this action. A
probabilistic representation of the uncertainty in sensing and actuation is
then included in this zoomed fine-resolution system description, and used to
construct a partially observable Markov decision process (POMDP). The policy
obtained by solving the POMDP is invoked repeatedly to implement the abstract
action as a sequence of concrete actions, with the corresponding observations
being recorded in the coarse-resolution history and used for subsequent
reasoning. The architecture is evaluated in simulation and on a mobile robot
moving objects in an indoor domain, to show that it supports reasoning with
violation of defaults, noisy observations and unreliable actions, in complex
domains.Comment: 72 pages, 14 figure
Predicting ConceptNet Path Quality Using Crowdsourced Assessments of Naturalness
In many applications, it is important to characterize the way in which two
concepts are semantically related. Knowledge graphs such as ConceptNet provide
a rich source of information for such characterizations by encoding relations
between concepts as edges in a graph. When two concepts are not directly
connected by an edge, their relationship can still be described in terms of the
paths that connect them. Unfortunately, many of these paths are uninformative
and noisy, which means that the success of applications that use such path
features crucially relies on their ability to select high-quality paths. In
existing applications, this path selection process is based on relatively
simple heuristics. In this paper we instead propose to learn to predict path
quality from crowdsourced human assessments. Since we are interested in a
generic task-independent notion of quality, we simply ask human participants to
rank paths according to their subjective assessment of the paths' naturalness,
without attempting to define naturalness or steering the participants towards
particular indicators of quality. We show that a neural network model trained
on these assessments is able to predict human judgments on unseen paths with
near optimal performance. Most notably, we find that the resulting path
selection method is substantially better than the current heuristic approaches
at identifying meaningful paths.Comment: In Proceedings of the Web Conference (WWW) 201
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