HORVITZ, Eric,, Commonsense Knowledge, Microsoft Research, April 16, 2014
<p>HORVITZ, Eric,, Commonsense Knowledge, Microsoft Research, April 16, 2014
person can't be in 2 places at same time
people wear clothes for hours (so can use clothes to help identify)
get boosts in recog by adding some core commonsense of space, time, and identitty
what does receptionist do at MSR = Microsoft Res.... to try to automate it.
people may want a shuttle bus...
Collaborative skills involved in chatting
the signal quality, the channel, etc. (Herb Clark work)
repres for multiparty engagement...
now has an automated receptionist (in addition to human)
trying to annotate intentions of humans;
are you visiting someone;
" I will make a reservation for shuttle to bldg 53;"
system fails a lot;
Eric's automated Assistant: female avatar with british accent;
2 people want to know his schedule;
she answers: not here despite his calendar;
toward a commonsense of social activity
see 1944 paper by fritz...
triangle chasing a sphere etc.
new dataset from MR: COCO; common objects in context dataset
average of 3.5 categoriesof object per image and 7.6 instances.</p>