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The $50 Business Rule
Work on acquiring knowledge about science has estimated the cost of encoding knowledge in question answering or problem solving systems at $10,000 per page of relevant textbooks. Regrettably, such...
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Understanding English promotes better policies and requirements
Capturing some policies from a publication by the Health and Human Services department recently turned up the following…. It’s probably the case that there are more specific lists than just “some list”...
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Benjamin Grosof and I will be presenting the following review of recent work at Vulcan towards Digital Aristotle as part of Project Halo at SemTechBiz in San Francisco the first week of June. Acquiring...
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Deep question answering: Watson vs. Aristotle
At the SemTech conference last week, a few companies asked me how to respond to IBM’s Watson given my involvement with rapid knowledge acquisition for deep question answering at Vulcan. My answer...
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Knowledge acquisition using lexical and semantic ontology
In developing a compliance application based on the institutional review board policies of John Hopkins’ Dept. of Medicine, we have to clarify the following sentence: Projects involving drugs or...
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Dictionary Knowledge Acquisition
The following is motivated by Section 6359 of the California Sales and Use Tax. It demonstrates how knowledge can be acquired from dictionary definitions: Here, we’ve taken a definition from WordNet...
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Deep natural language understanding (NLU) is different than deep learning, as is deep reasoning. Deep learning facilities deep NLP and will facilitate deeper reasoning, but it’s deep NLP for knowledge...
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Confessions of a production rule vendor (part 2)
Going on 5 years ago, I wrote part 1. Now, finally, it’s time for the rest of the story. The bottom line to this story: It’s time to trade rule technology dating back to the 80’s for state of the art...
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Simply Smarter Intelligent Agents
Deep learning can produce some impressive chatbots, but they are hardly intelligent. In fact, they are precisely ignorant in that they do not think or know anything. More intelligent dialog with an...
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Entailment-driven Extracting and Editing for Conversational Machine Reading
When I wrote Are Vitamins Subject to Sales Tax, I was addressing the process of translating knowledge expressed in formal documents, like laws, regulations, and contracts, into logic suitable for...
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