Knowledge representation and commonsense reasoning: Reviews of four books

Knowledge representation and commonsense reasoning: Reviews of four books

Ronald J. Brachman, Hector J. Levesque, Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 1558609326, 2004, 381 pages. Raymond Reiter, Knowledge in Action: Logical Foundations for Specifying and Implementing Dynamical Systems, MIT Press, ISBN 0262182181, 2001, 448 pages. Erik T. Mueller, Commonsense Reasoning, Morgan Kaufmann, ISBN 0123693888, 2006, 432 pages. Chitta Baral, Knowledg...

Knowledge Representation for Commonsense Reasoning with Text

The reader of a text actively constructs a rich picture of the objects, events, and situation described. The text is a vague, insufficient, and ambiguous indicator of the world that the writer intends to depict. The reader draws upon world knowledge to disambiguate and clarify the text, selecting the most plausible interpretation from among the (infinitely) many possible ones. In principle, any...

The Role of Logic in Knowledge Representation and Commonsense Reasoning

This paper examines the role that formal logic ought to play in representing and reasoning with commonsense knowledge. We take issue with the commonly held view (as expressed by Newell [1980]) that the use of representations based on formal logic is inappropriate in most applications of artificial intelligence. We argue to the contrary that there is an important set of issues, involving incompl...

Commonsense knowledge representation and reasoning with fuzzy neural networks

Commonsense Knowledge Representation I

Significant advances in artificial intelligence, including machines that play master level chess, or make medical diagnoses, highlight an intriguing paradox. While systems can compete with highly qualified experts in many fields, there has been much less progress in constructing machines that exhibit simple commonsense, the kind expected of any normally intelligent child. As a result, commonsen...