Common Sense Via Instant Messaging

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Common Sense Via Instant Messaging

• Sanjay Rao Sonia Garg
• MAS.964
• Henry Lieberman, Hugo Liu, Push Singh
• 12/12/02

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Agenda

• Design Goals
• Application Architecture
• Scenarios (Demo)
• Evaluation
• Extensions
• Q/A

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Design Goals

• User-Friendly
• Increase enjoyment of Open Mind interaction
• Minimize Overhead
• Do not require new applications or training
• Convenient Application
• Improve availability of Open Mind interface
• Large Potential User Base
• AOL/IM Networks over 100 Million People

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Design Architecture

• AOL IM
• Perl AIM Interface
• ALICE
• Open Mind
• Commands

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Open Mind Interface

• States and Transitions (FSM)
• Manages Conversation State
• Retrieval of Information
• Key word search
• Conversation use Common Sense
• Contribution of Information
• Enter Knowledge through Templates
• Write Results to XML

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Commands

• Delineated by /commandName to distinguish from
  dialog
• Commands Supported
• /search keyword
• /stock ticker
• /calc 345
• Similar to Remote Procedure Calls

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Demo
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Evaluation

• AOL IM is pretty popular
• Allows bi-directional interaction
• Gives user choice of services
• Quick communication, Seems like Real Time

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Extensions

• Model for supervised learning
• Verb Queries to OpenMind
• Better Interaction More Specific Dialog

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Q/A

• OpenMindBot (try it out!)
• sanjay_at_mit.edu garg_at_mit.edu
• Thanks.