Do Computers Need Common Sense? (1996)
| Venue: | Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Representation |
| Citations: | 14 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Ginsberg96docomputers,
author = {Matthew Ginsberg},
title = {Do Computers Need Common Sense?},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Knowledge Representation},
year = {1996},
pages = {620--626},
publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann}
}
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Abstract
My aim in this paper is to make and defend three claims. First, it is incumbent on the knowledge representation and nonmonotonic communities to demonstrate that their ideas will eventually lead to improvements in the performance of implemented systems. Second, a reasonable working definition of "commonsense " reasoning is that it is the process of using polynomial techniques to convert a large instance of an NP-hard problem to a smaller instance on which search techniques can be applied effectively. And finally, it is a consequence of these first two claims that the most pressing problem facing the commonsense community is the identification of realistic problems and problem structures for which commonsense reductions are both necessary and effective. 1 INTRODUCTION One might study formal aspects of knowledge representation for at least two reasons. In the first case, the elegance of the associated theories might itself be compelling; formal theories of reasoning might attract interes...
