The Public Acquisition of Commonsense Knowledge

Acquiring (and Using) Linguistic (and World) Knowledge for Information Access

Volume

Papers from the 2002 AAAI Spring Symposium

Contents

The Open Mind Common Sense project is an attempt to construct a database of commonsense knowledge through the collaboration of a distributed community of thousands of non-expert netizens. We give an overview of the project, describe our knowledge acquisition and representation strategy of using natural language rather than formal logic, and demonstrate this strategy with a search engine application that employs simple commonsense reasoning to reformulate problem queries into more effective solution queries.