Learning commonsense categorical knowledge in a thread memory system
Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004.
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| author | Stamatoiu, Oana L. (Oana Liana), 1981- |
| author2 | Patrick H. Winston. |
| author_facet | Patrick H. Winston. Stamatoiu, Oana L. (Oana Liana), 1981- |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/179882019-04-11T11:07:40Z Learning commonsense categorical knowledge in a thread memory system Stamatoiu, Oana L. (Oana Liana), 1981- Patrick H. Winston. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Thesis (M. Eng.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2004. Includes bibliographical references (p. 89-92). If we are to understand how we can build machines capable of broad purpose learning and reasoning, we must first aim to build systems that can represent, 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 that people use to make judgments about the everyday world. In this work, I contribute to these goals by proposing an architecture for a system that can learn commonsense knowledge about the properties and behavior of objects in the world. The architecture described here augments previous machine learning systems in four ways: (1) it relies on a seven dimensional notion of context, built from information recently given to the system, to learn and reason about objects' properties; (2) it has multiple methods that it can use to reason about objects, so that when one method fails, it can fall back on others; (3) it illustrates the usefulness of reasoning about objects by thinking about their similarity to other, better known objects, and by inferring properties of objects from the categories that they belong to; and (4) it represents an attempt to build a autonomous learner and reasoner, that sets its own goals for learning about the world and deduces new facts by reflecting on its acquired knowledge. This thesis describes this architecture, as well as a first implementation, that can learn from sentences such as "A blue bird flew to the tree" and "The small bird flew to the cage" that birds can fly. One of the main contributions of this work lies in suggesting a further set of salient ideas about how we can (cont.) build broader purpose commonsense artificial learners and reasoners. by Oana L. Stamatoiu. M.Eng. 2005-06-02T19:31:33Z 2005-06-02T19:31:33Z 2004 2004 Thesis http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17988 57192640 eng M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission. http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582 92 p. 5162055 bytes 5172554 bytes application/pdf application/pdf application/pdf Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
| spellingShingle | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Stamatoiu, Oana L. (Oana Liana), 1981- Learning commonsense categorical knowledge in a thread memory system |
| title | Learning commonsense categorical knowledge in a thread memory system |
| title_full | Learning commonsense categorical knowledge in a thread memory system |
| title_fullStr | Learning commonsense categorical knowledge in a thread memory system |
| title_full_unstemmed | Learning commonsense categorical knowledge in a thread memory system |
| title_short | Learning commonsense categorical knowledge in a thread memory system |
| title_sort | learning commonsense categorical knowledge in a thread memory system |
| topic | Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/17988 |
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