AI REDUX


Computer, June 2009, pp. 94–97

brain opening with keys coming out of the skull 

Extracting World Knowledge from the Web

by Alexander Yates

The field of artificial intelligence has made enormous progress in knowledge representation, reasoning, action, and perception in the past decade. However, one long-recognized obstacle to progress in AI keeps surfacing in various ways: Applications lack the world knowledge necessary to behave intelligently in the real world. For instance, natural language processing (NLP) systems need some form of world knowledge to correctly interpret "it" in the sentence "If the cat doesn't like the milk, try heating it."

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