Teaching machines about everyday life

BT Technology Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 227-240

  Singh, Push ^a   Barry, Barbara ^b   Liu, Hugo ^c  

^a Marvin Minsky's Society of Mind grp   (United States)

^b Media Lab's Interactive Cinema grp ^*

^c Interactive Experience grp

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMONSENSE KNOWLEDGE BASE; COMPUTATIONAL TOOLS; PROBABILISTIC GRAPHICAL MODEL; SEMANTIC NETWORK;

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; COMPUTER SYSTEMS; DATABASE SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE ACQUISITION; KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE REPRESENTATION; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBABILITY; SEMANTICS;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 8644220659     PISSN: 13583948     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BTTJ.0000047601.53388.74     Document Type: Article

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