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Robust intelligent systems require commonsense knowledge. While significant progress has been made in building large commonsense knowledge bases, they are intrinsically incomplete. It is difficult to combine multiple knowledge bases due to their different choices of representation and inference mechanisms, thereby limiting users to one knowledge base and its reasonable methods for any specific task. This paper presents a multi-agent framework for commonsense knowledge integration, and proposes an approach to capability modeling of knowledge bases without a common ontology. The proposed capability model provides a general description of large heterogeneous knowledge bases, such that contents accessible by the knowledge-based agents may be matched up against specific requests. The concept correlation matrix of a knowledge base is transformed into a k-dimensional vector space using low-rank approximation for dimensionality reduction. Experiments are performed with the matchmaking mechanism for commonsense knowledge integration framework using the capability models of ConceptNet, WordNet, and Wikipedia. In the user study, the matchmaking results are compared with the ranked lists produced by online users to show that over 85% of them are accurate and have positive correlation with the user-produced ranked lists.
This research was supported by a grant from the National Science Council of Taiwan, NSC 99-2221-E-002-139-MY3.
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Kuo, YL., Hsu, J.Yj. (2011). Capability Modeling of Knowledge-Based Agents for Commonsense Knowledge Integration. In: Kinny, D., Hsu, J.Yj., Governatori, G., Ghose, A.K. (eds) Agents in Principle, Agents in Practice. PRIMA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7047. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25044-6_24
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