Steps Towards a Second Generation Learning by Reading System

No. 7: Learning by Reading and Learning to Read

Volume

Papers from the 2009 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

Learning by reading is an important scientific problem because it requires modeling a wide range of human abilities. It also could break the knowledge engineering bottleneck, enabling the bootstrapping of intelligent systems via interaction with people using natural language. This paper outlines our progress on creating a 2nd generation learning by reading system, focusing on three main areas: Multimodal knowledge capture, reasoning for L understanding and learning, and analogical dialogue acts.