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Making Software Agents Smarter

Making Software Agents Smarter. Tim Finin University of Maryland, Baltimore County. ICAART 2010, 22 January 2010. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/287/. Motivation. The web has made people smarter and more capable. Motivation.

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Making Software Agents Smarter

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  1. Making Software Agents Smarter Tim Finin University of Maryland,Baltimore County ICAART 2010, 22 January 2010 http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/resource/html/id/287/

  2. Motivation The web has made people smarter and more capable

  3. Motivation It provides easy access to most of the world's knowledge and services

  4. Motivation Web standards, protocols & technology work better than earlier distributed infor-mation system technologies

  5. tell register But what about our agents? Agents still have a very minimal under-standing of text, images and video

  6. Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle Swoogle tell register Motivation Software agents need better access to a Web of knowledge to amplify their intelligence and knowledge

  7. DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia DBpedia tell register Motivation Key technologies: Semantic Web, linked data, text information extraction, Wikipedia derived KBs, etc.

  8. ACLs Agents and knowledge has been a focus of agent communication languages (ACLs) Much of the ACL work has focused on primitives, protocols and infrastructure Less attention has been applied to finding, sharing and integrating ontologies, common background data, and populating KBs from the Web

  9. Linked data and Wikipedia • Wikipedia as a source of knowledge • Wikis are an effective tool for building know-ledge resources: consensus driven, dynamic, high quality and free • Wikipedia as an ontology • Every Wikipedia page is a concept or object • Wikipedia as RDF data • Map this ontology into RDF • DBpedia as the lynchpin for Linked Data • Exploit its breadth of coverage to integrate information

  10. Linked Data on the Web, 3/09 ~5 billion integrated facts published on the Web as RDF Linked Data

  11. Wikipedia is the new Cyc • There’s a history of using ency-clopedias to develop KBs • Cyc’s original goal (c. 1984) wasto encode the knowledge in adesktop encyclopedia • And use it as an integrating ontology • Wikipedia is comparable to Cyc’s original desktop encyclopedia • But it’s machine accessible and malleable

  12. Populating Freebase KB

  13. Underlying Powerset’s KB

  14. Driving AskWiki’s answers

  15. With sometimes surprising results

  16. Mined by TrueKnowledge

  17. Source of Faviki tags

  18. Conclusion, for now The web has made people smarter and more capable, providing easy access to the world's knowledge and services Software agents need better access to a Web of knowledge to amplify whatever intelligence they have Some key technologies are ready to exploit: Semantic Web, linked data, DBpedia, Wikitology, etc.

  19. http://ebiquity.umbc.edu/

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