Schedule

Thursday, November 11

9:00 am - 9:45 Welcome/Invited Talk
9:45 - 10:05 Session: Reasoning Part 1
Graph-Based Reasoning and Reinforcement Learning for Improving Q/A

10:05 am - 10:35 am Break

10:35 am - 12:00 pm Session: Reasoning Part II
10:35-10:55 CrossBridge: Finding Analogies using Dimensionality Reduction
11:00-11:20 Performance in Large Knowledge-Based Systems
11:25-11:45 On Cross-Domain Inference Using Blending
11:45-12:00 Discussion

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm Lunch

1:30 pm - 3:00 pm Session: Acquisition
1:30-1:50 Commonsense from the Web: Relation Properties
1:55-2:15 Extracting Action and Event Semantics from Web Text
2:20-2:40 Quantification Sharpening of Commonsense Knowledge
2:45-3:00 Discussion

3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Break

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Platform Tutorials
3:30 - 4:15 pm Overview: OpenCyc and ResearchCyc
4:15 - 5:00 pm Overview: OMCS and Divisi

5:00-6:00 "AI Theater"

6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Reception

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Friday, November 12

9:00 am - 10:25 am Session: Resources and Applications
9:00-9:20 A Commonsense Knowledge Base for Generating Stories
9:25-9:45 SenticNet: a Publicly Available Semantic Resource for Opinion Mining
9:50-10:10 Coarse Word-Sense Disambiguation Using Common Sense
10:15-10:25 Discussion

10:25 am - 10:55 am Break

10:55 - 12:30 Panel: The requirements for representing common sense

12:30 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch

2:00 pm - 3:30 pm Short Talks
Human Computation Game for Commonsense Data Verification
Acquiring Common Sense Knowledge From Smart Environments
Computationally Reasoning on Physical World Common Sense in Text
Automated Color Selection Using Semantic Knowledge
Entailment Inference in a Natural Logic-like General Reasoner
A Japanese Natural Language Toolset Implementation for ConceptNet

3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Break

4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Session: Reasoning and Infrastructure
4:00-4:20 The Metacognitive Loop: An Architecture for Building Robust Intelligent Systems
4:25-4:45 FIRE: Infrastructure for Experience-based Systems
4:50-5:10 Modeling the Evolution of Knowledge and Reasoning in Learning Systems
5:15-5:30 Discussion

5:45 pm - 7:15 pm Plenary Session

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Saturday, November 13

9:00 am - 10:00 am Session: Games
9:00-9:15 The Concept Game: Better commonsense knowledge extraction by combining text mining and a game with a purpose
9:20-9:40 A Turing Game for Commonsense Knowledge Extraction
9:45-10:05 A Kid's Open Mind Common Sense

10:05 am - 10:30 am Break

10:30 - Games 2
10:30-10:50 Goal-oriented Knowledge Collection
10:55- 11:10 Discussion

11:10 am - 11:45 am Panel: The roles for manual vs. automatic building up

11:45-12:30 pm Open Sessions