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...ltilingual Knowledge Collection In 2005, a sister project to Open Mind Common Sense was established at the Universidade Federal de São Carlos, in order to collect common sense knowledge in Portuguese =-=[2]-=-. The Open Mind Commonsense no Brasil project has now collected over 160,000 statements from its contributors. GlobalMind [3], a project to collect similar knowledge in Korean, Japanese, and Chinese a...

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...e performed with it such as spreading activation from a set of words. ConceptNet 2 was only in English. The project became multilingual shortly afterward, both with the sister project OMCS no Brasil (=-=Anacleto et al., 2006-=-), collecting knowledge in Brazilian Portuguese, and GlobalMind (Chung, 2006), collecting knowledge in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. ConceptNet 3 (Havasi et al., 2007) made ConceptNet into a...

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...hown that common sense knowledge, i.e. the knowledge people acquire since their childhood, considered as truth in the cultural environment where they are inserted into, can be used to state the target group’s previous knowledge and to identify its needs [4] [5] [2]. Therefore, we have been investigating how computational technology can make possible the use of common sense to plan learning activity, taking into account the importance of contextualizing the learning activity to the target group’s needs in order to reach pedagogical issues. As common sense knowledge expresses cultural knowledge [1], it is considered that learning activities planned based on it is culturally contextualized. The paper is organized as follows: section 2 presents PACO, the framework for planning learning activities which PACO-T is based on; section 3 presents PACO-T; finally, section 4 presents some conclusion remarks and points to future works. 2 The Framework PACO and Common Sense PACO is a framework designed to support teachers on the Planning of Learning Activities supported by COmputers, which is composed by seven steps [8]: (1) define the learning activity theme, target public and general goal; (2) or...

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...ring a great part of everyday human experience, knowledge of spatial,sphysical, social and psychological aspects. In short, common sense is the knowledgesshared by most people in a particular culture =-=[1]-=-.s1.1sProcessing Common Sense KnowledgesOMCS-Br project, developed by the Advanced Interaction Laboratory (LIA) atsUFSCar in collaboration with Media Lab fromsMIT, has been collected commonssense of a...

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...er, however, they are adding content to the game which suggests that the final game has been co-authored. We discuss the related work in Section 2 that focuses on cultural support for games. Section 3 describes the sex education game. Section 4 discusses the evaluation of this game in the classroom. We then conclude the paper and provide future work directions in Section 6. 2 What is it? We are using common sense statements as cultural knowledge to give cultural context to the sex education game the educators develop. Common sense is the knowledge shared by most people in a particular culture [1]. As complexity of computer applications grows, one way to make them more helpful and capable of avoiding unwise mistakes and unnecessary misunderstandings is to make use of common sense knowledge in their development [5]. For our sex education game, we want to extract the knowledge appropriate for the students who will be playing the game so that the teacher can use it effectively. We use the OMCS-Br project (Open Mind Common Sense – Brazil) to collect common sense of the Brazilian general public. Within the OMCS-BR database are encodings of the relationships between statements generated by p...

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... focused on filling in the gaps in large, existing knowledge bases [28, 14]. While originating in English, these large common sense knowledge-bases increasingly have been expanding to other languages =-=[1]-=-[8][9] and using new techniques [7] to incorporate external, often domain specific, information. For these applications, it is important to be able to add a new concept to an existing knowledge base a...

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...fico – o assunto de interesse. As diferenças culturais no vocabulário das pessoas são consideradas para contextualizar a busca, graças a uma base de conhecimento cultural mantida pelo projeto OMCS-Br =-=[14]-=-. Esse trabalho continua em andamento, e novos algoritmos para aprimoramento da medição do “grau de interesse” de uma pessoa por um determinado assunto são os atuais objetos de pesquisa. Ainda no cont...

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...onal material and f) Minimize the time used to prepare it. In this context, common sense can be defined as the knowledge that is shared by the vast majority of people who live in a particular culture =-=[1]-=-,[2]. For example, simple statements as “ice is cold”, knowledge about the world as “Brazil is in Latin America”, habits like “people take the shoes off when they arrive at home” and (possibly controv...